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.
MERCHET
Etymology
Noun
merchet (plural merchets)
(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"chet, Mer"chet, n. Etym: [LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin.]
Definition: In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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