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.
MECONIUM
meconium
(noun) thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
meconium (countable and uncountable, plural meconiums)
(medicine) A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn
(obsolete) opium
Anagrams
• encomium
Source: Wiktionary
Me*co"ni*um, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Med.) (a) Opium. [Obs.] (b) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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