coffee bush

English

Noun

coffee bush (countable and uncountable, plural coffee bushes)

  1. A plant of the genus Coffea, from which coffee is sourced.
  2. (Australia) A small mimosoid shrub or tree, Leucaena leucocephala, native to the Neotropics, growing as a weed in tropical and subtropical Australia; white popinac.
    • 1987, Hilary Thompson, Common Birds of the Darwin Area, Winnellie: Sandpiper Productions, page vii:
      [I]n disturbed areas, like East Point, exotic trees like poinciana and "coffee bush" invade the edges.
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