The dark red or burgundy fruit of a coffee plant that contains the seeds (beans) used to make coffee.
From coffee + berry. Coffee plants produce this berry-like fruit, though botanically it's a drupe (a fleshy fruit with a hard pit inside). The term emerged in European languages as coffee cultivation and trade expanded.
When coffee plants bloom with tiny white flowers, they're stunningly beautiful—but it's the coffeeberry that matters economically. A single plant might produce hundreds of these berries over its lifetime, and careful harvesting of perfectly ripe coffeeberries makes the difference between excellent and mediocre coffee.
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