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.
CHOKING
choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
(noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; “no evidence that the choking was done by the accused”
choking
(noun) a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
choking (plural chokings)
The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway.
Verb
choking
present participle of choke
Anagrams
• Hocking, hocking
Source: Wiktionary
Chok"ing, a.
1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
CHOKE
Choke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] Etym: [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. aceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]
1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.
2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.
3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.
4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.
5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
Choke, v. i.
1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott.
Choke, n.
1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. (Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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