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.
FESTERING
pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering
(noun) a fluid product of inflammation
festering, suppuration, maturation
(noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
festering
present participle of fester
Noun
festering (plural festerings)
The condition of something that festers.
Synonyms
• fester
• festerment
Anagrams
• gnetifers
Source: Wiktionary
FESTER
Fes"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] Etym: [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fes`ter, v. t.
Definition: To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.
Fes"ter, n. Etym: [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.]
1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.
2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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