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.
DECLAMATORY
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
declamatory (comparative more declamatory, superlative most declamatory)
Having the quality of a declamation.
Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
Source: Wiktionary
De*clam"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire.]
1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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