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(jä′və, jav′ə)

noun

any of a breed of domestic chicken developed in the U.S. from Asian stock, having black or mottled black plumage
☆ a kind of coffee grown on Java and nearby islands
☆ Slang any coffee

large island of Indonesia, southeast of Sumatra: 49,995 sq mi (129,487 sq km); pop. (with Madura) 107,581,000

See Java in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Informal

Brewed coffee.

Origin:

Origin: After Java¹

An island of Indonesia separated from Borneo by the Java Sea, an arm of the western Pacific Ocean. Center of an early Hindu Javanese civilization, Java was converted to Islam before the arrival of the Europeans (mainly the Dutch) in the late 16th century.

A trademark used for a programming language designed to develop applications, especially ones for the Internet, that can operate on different platforms.

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