Definition of California coffee

1. Noun. Evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits.


Lexicographical Neighbors of California Coffee

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California Spangled Cat
California allspice
California bay tree
California beauty
California black oak
California black walnut
California blackberries
California blackberry
California blanket
California bluebell
California box elder
California buckthorn
California buckwheat
California coffee
California condor
California dandelion
California dewberries
California dewberry
California encephalitis
California false morel
California fern
California four o'clock
California fuchsia
California holly
California lady's slipper
California laurel

Literary usage of California coffee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"california coffee. Rhamnus Californica, Esch. Buckthorn Family. Shrubs.—Four to eighteen feet high. Leaves.—Alternate; elliptic to oblong; denticulate or ..."

2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"... a beautiful shrub of the rose family with large clusters of red berries among the thick evergreen leaves; the coffee berry or california coffee (Rhamnus ..."

3. The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts by Isabella Graham Duffield Stewart, Sally B. Sill, Mary B. Duffield (1878)
"The white of an egg, thoroughly beaten and added (california coffee) to thin cream or rich milk, is also very nice. ..."

4. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"The california coffee-bean Shell (T. Californica, Gray) is about the shape and size of a large grain of coffee. The dorsal depression is shallow, ..."

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