Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In New Zealand, a settlers' name for the karamu, Coprosma lucida. A drink is made of its berries. See orangeleaf.

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Examples

  • When travelling between Kandy and Newera Ellia, I was the guest of coffee-planters, all of them, so far as I remember, my own countrymen; and saw coffee in all its stages, from the berry on the coffee-bush on to the manufactured article ready for the market.

    Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

  • a certain amount of delicacy about advancing, and so showing them that I had been an involuntary witness of their philandering, so I softly stepped aside off the pathway and ensconsed myself behind a coffee-bush, thinking that perhaps they would go on and enter the house, in which case I could follow them in at a respectful distance.

    The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

  • a coffee-bush a few feet from the ground, and was a rather frail structure, suspended from the arms of a small fork formed by one bare twig crossing another.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • I found it in a coffee-bush the day before leaving, so snared parent bird to make sure it was _O. fuscicaudata_, or otherwise should have left a couple of the eggs to see if young would turn out true to parents. "

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

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