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.
COCTION
Etymology
Noun
coction (plural coctions)
(obsolete) An act of boiling.
(medicine, obsolete) digestion
(obsolete) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
Anagrams
• oncotic
Source: Wiktionary
Coc"tion, n. Etym: [L. coctio.]
1. Act of boiling.
2. (Med.) (a) Digestion. [Obs.] (b) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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