Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The leaf of the coffee-plant.
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Examples
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The boiled coffee-leaf has been tried and approved of in England; we omit, however, to toast it.
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An infusion of the coffee-leaf has long been an article of universal consumption amongst the natives of parts of Sumatra; wherever the coffee is grown, the leaf has become one of the necessaries of life, which the natives regard as indispensable.
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How the beans may be examined under the microscope, and what is revealed -- Structure of the berry, the green, and the roasted beans -- The coffee-leaf disease under the microscope -- Value of microscopic analysis in detecting adulteration Page 149
All About Coffee 1909
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The coffee tree has many pests and diseases; but the disease most feared by planters is that generally referred to as the coffee-leaf disease, and by this is meant the fungoid _Hemileia vastatrix_, which as told in chapter XV, destroyed Ceylon's once prosperous coffee industry.
All About Coffee 1909
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The boiled coffee-leaf has been tried and approved of in England; we omit, however, to toast it.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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a small insect of the lepidopterous variety, which is known as the coffee-leaf miner.
All About Coffee 1909
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1869 -- The coffee-leaf disease is first noticed in Ceylon.
All About Coffee 1909
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