coffee bean

noun

plural coffee beans

: the usually dried and roasted seed of a tropical plant (genus Coffea and especially C. arabica and C. canephora) from which coffee (see coffee sense 1a) is prepared

Examples of coffee bean in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Aziz began researching coffee beans and traveling across California. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026

In Connecticut, diamondback terrapins live in saltmarsh habitats and consume coffee bean snails, which if left unchecked would consume all the grass in the saltmarsh. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026

Garrod also recreated Renna’s first design, and bestseller, the gold coffee bean seashell on the walls of the space. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

Just five years prior, the village was flourishing with a robust coffee bean harvest. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1688, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for coffee bean

• acridine
• acrolein
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• alkylene
• aniline
• anthracene
• aquiline
• asphaltene
• atlantean
• atrazine
• butadiene
• butylene