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coffee bean

coffee bean noun: the seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea, that is prepared by drying, roasting and grinding for making the beverage coffee.

coffee bean: the seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea, that is prepared by drying, roasting and grinding...
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Noun

coffee bean (plural coffee beans)

  1. The seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea, that is prepared by drying, roasting and grinding for making the beverage coffee.

coffee bean meaning in Kannada, Gujarati, Arabic and Malay

coffee bean in Kannada

ಕಾಫಿ ಬೀಜ

coffee bean in Gujarati

The seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea
બુંદદાણા bunddāṇā

coffee bean in Arabic

The seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea
بُنّ bunn

coffee bean in Malay

The seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea
biji kopi
More languagesFewer languages
coffee bean in Vietnamese
hạt cà phê

Forms of coffee bean

pluralcoffee beans
alternative formcoffeebean

Origin of coffee bean

From coffee + bean. First attested in c. 1688.

Questions about coffee bean

What does coffee bean mean?
Coffee bean means the seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea, that is prepared by drying, roasting and grinding for making the beverage coffee.
What is coffee bean in Kannada?
Coffee bean in Kannada is ಕಾಫಿ ಬೀಜ. See Coffee bean meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is coffee bean?
Coffee bean is a noun.
What is the plural of coffee bean?
The plural of coffee bean is coffee beans.

Words near coffee bean in the dictionary

  1. coffee au lait
  2. coffee bag
  3. coffee bags
  4. coffee bar
  5. coffee bars
  6. coffee bean
  7. coffee beans
  8. coffee berries
  9. coffee berry
  10. coffee bowl
  11. coffee bowls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coffee bean (page history and authors); coffee bean (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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