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.
PIARIST
Etymology
Noun
Piarist (plural Piarists)
A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.
Source: Wiktionary
Pi"a*rist, n. Etym: [L. pius pious.] (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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