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.
CONNOTE
imply, connote
(verb) express or state indirectly
connote, predicate
(verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; “solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
connote (third-person singular simple present connotes, present participle connoting, simple past and past participle connoted)
(transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
(transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
(intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
(intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Synonyms
• (possess an inseparable condition): entail, imply
• (express without overt reference): entail, imply
• (require as a logical predicate): predicate
Anagrams
• contone
Source: Wiktionary
Con*note", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Connoted; p.pr. & vb.n. Connoting.] Etym: [See Connotate, and Note.]
1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.
2. (Logic)
Definition: To imply as an attribute. The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." J. S. Mill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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