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
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The rest — 99% of raw coffee beans — is imported from around the world.
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
Zoom in: Outside of some marginal production in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, the U.S. doesn't grow coffee beans, instead importing 99% of its coffee, per the National Coffee Association.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
The oil in coffee beans is rich in compounds called diterpenes.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Other common ingredients are caffeine, green tea, green coffee bean extract, garcinia cambogia, and ketones.
—Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2025
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
Zoom in: Outside of some marginal production in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, the U.S. doesn't grow coffee beans, instead importing 99% of its coffee, per the National Coffee Association.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
The oil in coffee beans is rich in compounds called diterpenes.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Other common ingredients are caffeine, green tea, green coffee bean extract, garcinia cambogia, and ketones.
—Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for coffee bean
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“Coffee bean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffee%20bean. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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