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.
ARTIFICIALLY
artificially, unnaturally, by artificial means
(adverb) not according to nature; not by natural means; “artificially induced conditions”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
artificially (comparative more artificially, superlative most artificially)
In an artificial manner.
By or because of human effort.
Antonyms
• naturally
Source: Wiktionary
Ar`ti*fi"cial*ly, adv.
1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
2. Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.] The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.
3. Craftily; artfully. [Obs.] Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
ARTIFICIAL
Ar`ti*fi"cial, a. Etym: [L. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice.]
1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.
2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "Artificial tears." Shak.
3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] Shak.
4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. Gibbon. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson.
– Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the Linnæan system.
– Artificial horizon. See under Horizon. Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.
– Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
– Artificial numbers, logarithms.
– Artificial person (Law). See under Person.
– Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural, tangents, etc. Hutton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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