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.
ENCYSTMENT
Etymology
Noun
encystment (countable and uncountable, plural encystments)
The formation of a cyst.
The process of becoming enclosed by a cyst.
Synonyms
• encystation
Source: Wiktionary
En*cyst"ment, n.
1. (Biol.)
Definition: A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
Note: The animal (a) first contracts its body to a globular mass (b) and then secretes a transparent cyst (c), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in d e), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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