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.
FILAMENT
filament
(noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
filament, filum
(noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
filament
(noun) the stalk of a stamen
fibril, filament, strand
(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
filament (plural filaments)
A fine thread or wire.
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
(physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
Anagrams
• left main
Source: Wiktionary
Fil"a*ment, n. Etym: [F. filament, fr. L. filum thread. See File a row.]
Definition: A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
29 April 2024
SUBDUCTION
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
Coffee Trivia
