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.
COMFIT
comfit
(noun) candy containing a fruit or nut
confect, confection, comfit
(verb) make into a confection; “This medicine is home-confected”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
comfit (plural comfits)
A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
Verb
comfit (third-person singular simple present comfits, present participle comfiting, simple past and past participle comfited)
(transitive) To preserve dry with sugar.
Etymology 2
Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
Noun
comfit (plural comfits)
(Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"fit, n. Etym: [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.]
Definition: A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Com"fit, v. t.
Definition: To preserve dry with sugar. The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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