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.
IMMERSES
Verb
immerses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immerse
Source: Wiktionary
IMMERSE
Im*merse", a. Etym: [L. immersus, p. p. of immergere. See Immerge.]
Definition: Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
Im*merse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing.]
1. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.
2. To baptize by immersion.
3. To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. The queen immersed in such a trance. Tennyson. It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this. Atterbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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