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.
APPAREL
apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes
(noun) clothing in general; “she was refined in her choice of apparel”; “he always bought his clothes at the same store”; “fastidious about his dress”
dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
(verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on; “Parents must feed and dress their child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
apparel (countable and uncountable, plural apparels)
Clothing.
(figurative) Aspect, guise, form.
A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
Synonyms
• See also clothing
Verb
apparel (third-person singular simple present apparels, present participle apparelling or appareling, simple past and past participle apparelled or appareled)
(transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
(transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
Synonyms
• (to dress): dight, don, put on; see also clothe
• (to furnish with apparatus): kit out
• (to dress with external ornaments): adorn, ornament; see also decorate
Source: Wiktionary
Ap*par"el, n. Etym: [OE. apparel, apareil, OF. apareil, appareil, preparation, provision, furniture, OF. apareiller to match, prepare, F. appareiller; OF. a (L. ad) + pareil like, similar, fr. LL. pariculus, dim. of L. par equal. See Pair.]
1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.
2. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
Syn.
– Dress; clothing; vesture; garments; raiment; garb; costume; attire; habiliments.
Ap*par"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appareled, or Apparelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Appareling, or Apparelling.] Etym: [OF. apareiller.]
1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward.
3. To dress or clothe; to attire. They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25.
4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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