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.
FLORESCENCE
blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
florescence (countable and uncountable, plural florescences)
The time, or the condition, of budding or flowering.
Source: Wiktionary
Flo*res"cence, n. Etym: [See Florescent.] (Bot.)
Definition: A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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