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[W/K] :: Coffee rat


2 definitions 
 for Coffee rat
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Musang \Mu*sang"\, n. (Zool.)
     A small animal of Java ({Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to
     the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large
     quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to
     disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee
     rat.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Coffee \Cof"fee\ (k[add]"f[-e]; k[o^]f"f[-e]; 115), n. [Turk.
     qahveh, Ar. qahuah wine, coffee, a decoction of berries. Cf.
     Caf['e].]
     1. The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the
        drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea,
        growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm
        regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     2. The coffee tree.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: There are several species of the coffee tree, as,
           Coffea Arabica, Coffea canephora, Coffea
           occidentalis, and Coffea Liberica. The white,
           fragrant flowers grow in clusters at the root of the
           leaves, and the fruit is a red or purple cherrylike
           drupe, with sweet pulp, usually containing two pyrenes,
           commercially called "beans" or "berries".
           [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The beverage made by decoction of the roasted and ground
        berry of the coffee tree.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              They have in Turkey a drink called coffee. . . .
              This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and
              helpeth digestion.                    --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. a cup of coffee[3], especially one served in a restaurant;
        as, we each had two donuts and a coffee; three coffees to
        go.
        [PJC]
  
     5. a social gathering at which coffee is served, with
        optional other foods or refreshments.
        [PJC]
  
     6. a color ranging from medium brown to dark brown.
        [PJC]
  
     Note: The use of coffee is said to have been introduced into
           England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in
           Oxford and London.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     Coffee bug (Zool.), a species of scale insect ({Lecanium
        coff[ae]a), often very injurious to the coffee tree.
  
     Coffee rat (Zool.) See Musang.
        [1913 Webster]


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