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.
FOAM
foam, froth
(noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; “the beer had a thick head of foam”
foam
(noun) a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture
foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles
(verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming; “The boiling soup was frothing”; “The river was foaming”; “sparkling water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
foam (countable and uncountable, plural foams)
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
(by extension) Sea foam; (figuratively, poetic) the sea.
Fury.
Verb
foam (third-person singular simple present foams, present participle foaming, simple past and past participle foamed)
(intransitive) To form or emit foam.
(intransitive) To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth.
Source: Wiktionary
Foam, n. Etym: [OE. fam, fom, AS. fm; akin to OHG. & G. feim.]
Definition: The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids,or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.
Foam, v.i. [imp.& p.p. Foamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Foaming.] Etym: [AS. fman. See Foam, n.]
1. To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth. Mark ix. 18.
2. To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
Foam, v.t.
Definition: To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam. "Foaming out their own shame." Jude 13.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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