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.
DELVE
dig, delve, cut into, turn over
(verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; “Dig we must”; “turn over the soil for aeration”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
delve (third-person singular simple present delves, present participle delving, simple past (obsolete) dalf or delved, past participle (obsolete) dolven or delved)
(intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
(ambitransitive) To dig, to excavate.
Synonyms
• (to dig the ground): dig
• (to search thoroughly): investigate, research
Etymology 2
Noun
delve (plural delves)
(now rare) A pit or den.
Anagrams
• devel
Source: Wiktionary
Delve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] Etym: [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. Delf a mine.]
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
Delve, v. i.
Definition: To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
Delve, n. Etym: [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.]
Definition: A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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