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.
AMANUENSIS
stenographer, amanuensis, shorthand typist
(noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
amanuensis (plural amanuenses)
One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.
Source: Wiktionary
A*man`u*en"sis, n.; pl. Amanuenses. Etym: [L., fr. a, ab + manus hand.]
Definition: A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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