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.
ANAGRAM
anagram
(noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
anagram, anagrammatize, anagrammatise
(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
anagram (plural anagrams)
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Coordinate terms
• alphagram
• palindrome
Verb
anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)
To form anagrams.
Anagrams
• argaman
Source: Wiktionary
An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]
Definition: Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
An"a*gram, v. t.
Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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