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.
EXTENSIVE
blanket, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, across-the-board, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide
(adjective) broad in scope or content; “across-the-board pay increases”; “an all-embracing definition”; “blanket sanctions against human-rights violators”; “an invention with broad applications”; “a panoptic study of Soviet nationality”- T.G.Winner; “granted him wide powers”
extensive, extended
(adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; “an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England”; “extended farm lands”; “surgeons with extended experience”; “they suffered extensive damage”
extensive
(adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; “producing wheat under extensive conditions”; “agriculture of the extensive type”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)
having a great extent; covering a large area; vast
(figurative) considerable in amount.
Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension
(physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*ten"sive, a. Etym: [L. extensivus: cf. F. extensif. See Extend.]
1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.
2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.] Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HISTOLOGICALLY
(adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques; “histologically identifiable structures”
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