There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
ADVERB
adverb
(noun) the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
adverb
(noun) a word that modifies something other than a noun
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
adverb (plural adverbs)
(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
Usage notes
Adverbs comprise a fundamental category of words in most languages. In English, adverbs are typically formed from adjectives by appending -ly and are used to modify verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, other adverbs, and entire sentences, but rarely nouns or noun phrases.
Hyponyms
• (words that modify verbs, etc.): intransitive preposition
Verb
adverb (third-person singular simple present adverbs, present participle adverbing, simple past and past participle adverbed)
(rare) To make into or become an adverb.
Synonyms
• adverbialize
Anagrams
• Bevard, braved
Source: Wiktionary
Ad"verb, n. Etym: [L. adverbium; ad + verbum word, verb: cf. F. adverbe.] (Gram.)
Definition: A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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