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单词 coffee-tree
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coffee-treen.

Etymology: coffee n. 1.
1. The tree or shrub from which coffee is obtained.
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coffee1623
Arabian coffee1727
coffee-tree1736
arabica1845
coffee-bush1859
coffee-plant1859
coffee-shrub1866
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 312 The Berries of the Coffee-tree.
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers i The breeze..carries on its wings the aroma of the coffee-tree.
1855 J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Common Life I. 203 The Coffee-tree..attains a height in some countries not exceeding 8 or 10, but in others averaging from 15 to 20 feet.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 121 Coffea (Coffee Tree)—Rubiaceae. Stove evergreen shrubs.
2. U.S. The North American tree Gymnocladus dioica; the Kentucky coffee-nut.
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coffee-tree1784
parchment1883
stump tree1891
robusta1908
1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 23 The coffee-tree greatly resembles a black oak, grows large, and also bears a pod, in which is enclosed good coffee.
1785 G. Washington Diary (1925) II. 360 Eight Nuts from a tree called the Kentucke Coffee tree.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 636 The coffee-tree resembles the black oak, and bears a pod which encloses a seed, of which a drink is made not unlike coffee.
1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 166 The French of Canada call this tree Chicot..and the inhabitants of the Western States, Coffee Tree.
1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 390 The Coffee Tree famed for its similitude to the fruit that adds to our morning meal.
1900 H. L. Keeler Native Trees (1902) 109 Kentucky coffee tree, stump tree, gymnocladus dioicus.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 939/2 The name Coffee-tree applied to G. dioica comes from the seeds having been used as a substitute for coffee by the early settlers in N. America.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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