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cof•fee•ber•ry
(kô′fē ber′ē, kof′ē-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ries.
- Plant Biologyan evergreen shrub, Rhamnus californica, of the buckthorn family, common in the western U.S., having small, greenish flowers and red fruit that turns black, grown as a bee plant.
- coffee + berry 1655–65, American.