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GENUS COFFEA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Synonyms:
Coffea; genus Coffea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Coffea" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Coffea"):
coffee; coffee tree (any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans)
Holonyms ("genus Coffea" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)