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.
HEPATICS
Noun
hepatics
plural of hepatic
Anagrams
• capeshit, pastiche, pistache, scaphite
Source: Wiktionary
HEPATIC
He*pat"ic, a. Etym: [L. hepaticus, Gr. jecur, Skr. yak: cf. F. hépatique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts. Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive.
– Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.
– Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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