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Arabian coffee

noun

Definition of Arabian coffee 

: arabica sense 1 Next to that thicket, Arabian coffee trees are loaded with coffee beans.— Betty Mohr, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 1999 Arabian coffee is a handsome plant with long, lustrous leaves and dark-red, half-inch wide fruit. — Charles Reynolds, Ledger (Lakeland, Florida), 2 Aug. 2002

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1674, in the meaning defined above

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