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.
INDURATE
callous, indurate, pachydermatous
(adjective) emotionally hardened; “a callous indifference to suffering”; “cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion”
inure, harden, indurate
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; “He was inured to the cold”
harden, indurate
(verb) become hard or harder; “The wax hardened”
harden, indurate
(verb) make hard or harder; “The cold hardened the butter”
indurate
(verb) become fixed or established; “indurated customs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
indurate (third-person singular simple present indurates, present participle indurating, simple past and past participle indurated)
To harden or to grow hard.
To make callous or unfeeling.
To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
Synonyms
• inure
• (harden): See also harden
• (strengthen): See also strengthen
Adjective
indurate (comparative more indurate, superlative most indurate)
Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
Anagrams
• daturine, ruinated, urinated
Source: Wiktionary
In"du*rate, a. Etym: [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.]
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
In"du*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating.]
1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
In"du*rate, v. i.
Definition: To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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IMPROVISED
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