usually Java: arabica coffee beans of plants grown in Java, Indonesia that produce a usually full-bodied coffee of low to medium acidity
Examples of java in a Sentence
a hot cup of java
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island of Indonesia in the Greater Sunda Islands southeast of Sumatra and south of Borneo between the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean; chief city Jakarta area 51,007 square miles (132,618 square kilometers), population 107,581,306
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