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.
AMBAGIOUS
circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
(adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; âhad a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expressionâ; âA periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.â-T.S.Eliot; (âambagiousâ is archaic)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
ambagious (comparative more ambagious, superlative most ambagious)
Roundabout; vague.
Indefinite.
Source: Wiktionary
Am*ba"gious, a. Etym: [L. ambagiosus.]
Definition: Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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