Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The so-called male coffee-berry.

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  • noun A kind of coffee bean, one that develops alone in the cherry rather than with a second seed and thus has a more oval shape.

Etymologies

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pea +‎ berry

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Examples

  • "peaberry" -- as well as milling machinery for making the coffee as clean as possible before it is roasted.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • MILK CHOCOLATE COVERED Only the best Jamaica Blue Mountain 'peaberry' coffee beans are roasted A division of the Artisan Confections CompanyAcronym Definition; CCCB: Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops: CCCB: Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) CCCB:

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Tanzanian peaberry coffee beans, freshly brewed with a simple Krup machine, are near perfect for curing AM grogginess.

    Tim Ferriss: The Best 8 Beverages in the World 2008

  • The ambrosial kenyan peaberry in my cup makes me forgive it's less then Nectar like roasting aroma.

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2007

  • I conjured up thoughts of a giant steaming bowl of chili, my favorite snickerdoodle cookies hot from the oven, and a huge scalding pot of Mimo's contraband New Guinea peaberry coffee.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • The coffee berry bearing this name is of the peaberry variety -- that is, only one of the two seeds within the husk comes to maturity.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • The screens are made to grade the beans into large and small peaberry; large, medium, and small flat beans; brokens; and other commercial sizes.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • The peaberry coffee rolls about so nicely in the pan that they get a much more uniform roast.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • In Brittany the demand is for peaberry coffee, no matter of what variety.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • Some few drupes contain three, while others, at the outer ends of the branches, contain only one round bean, known as the peaberry.

    All About Coffee 1909

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