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.
MOWING
Etymology
Verb
mowing
present participle of mow
Noun
mowing (plural mowings)
The activity by which something is mown.
Land from which grass is cut.
Source: Wiktionary
Mow"ing, n.
1. The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.
2. Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.
MOW
Mow, n. [Written also moe and mowe.] Etym: [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]
Definition: A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.
Mow, v. i.
Definition: To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.
Mow, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Same as Mew, a gull.
Mow, v. [pres. sing. Mow, pl. Mowe, Mowen, Moun.] Etym: [AS. magan. See May, v.]
Definition: May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.
Mow, v. t. [imp. Mowed; p. p. Mowed or Mown (; p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] Etym: [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. mawan; akin to D. maaijen, G. mähen, OHG. majan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.]
1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
3. To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
Mow, v. i.
Definition: To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
Mow, n. Etym: [OE. mowe, AS. m.]
1. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
Mow, v. t.
Definition: To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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