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.
DERACINATE
uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out
(verb) pull up by or as if by the roots; “uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
uproot, deracinate
(verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; “The war uprooted many people”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
deracinate (third-person singular simple present deracinates, present participle deracinating, simple past and past participle deracinated)
To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
(transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
Anagrams
• ecardinate
Source: Wiktionary
De*rac"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deracinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Deracinating.] Etym: [F. déraciner; pref. dé- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.]
Definition: To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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