Coffea

See also: coffea

Translingual

Etymology

From New Latin, from European vernacular words for coffee (cognate in various vernaculars), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa); Carl Linnaeus coined the genus name in 1737.

Proper noun

Coffea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – coffee plants, most of which yield beans with a substantial amount of caffeine.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Gentianales – order; Rubiaceae – family; Ixoroideae – subfamily; Coffeeae – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Coffea arabica – type species; Coffea canephora (syn. Coffea robusta); Coffea charrieriana (charrier coffee), Coffea liberica (Liberian coffee), Coffea pseudozanguebariae, Coffea racemosa (Inhambane coffee), Coffea stenophylla (highland coffee, Sierra Leone coffee) – selected other species
  • Coffea subg. Baracoffea, Coffea subg. Coffea – subgenera

References

• Coffea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Coffea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Coffea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons