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.
GARNET
garnet
(noun) any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)
(mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
Adjective
garnet
Of a dark red colour.
Etymology 2
Noun
garnet (plural garnets)
(nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
Etymology 3
Verb
garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)
(transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.
Anagrams
• Gretna, Tanger, argent, gerant
Proper noun
Garnet
A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
Source: Wiktionary
Gar"net, n. Etym: [OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F. grenat, LL. granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See Grain, and cf. Grenade, Pomegranate.] (Min.)
Definition: A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.
Note: There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was, in part, the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate. Garnet berry (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color.
– Garnet brown (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.
Gar"net, n. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.)
Definition: A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Clew garnet. See under Clew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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