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.
MILKY
milky, milklike, whitish
(adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear; “milky glass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
milky (comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)
Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
(color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
(of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.
(of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
(colloquial) Cowardly.
(colloquial) Immature, childish.
(obsolete) Producing milk, lactating.
Synonyms
• (resembling milk): lacteous; see also lacteous
• (containing milk): lactiferous
• (cowardly): fearful, nithing; see also cowardly
• (immature): infantile, puerile; see also childish
• (producing milk): lactifluous, nursing, with milk
Source: Wiktionary
Milk"y, a.
1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.
2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.
3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.
4. Mild; tame; spiritless. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart Shak. Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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