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.
COLISTIN
Noun
colistin (usually uncountable, plural colistins)
(medicine) A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic.
Synonyms
• polymyxin E
Hypernyms
• polymyxin
• antibiotic
Coordinate terms
• MCR-1/mcr-1 (a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins)
Anagrams
• clitions
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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