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.
POXED
Verb
poxed
simple past tense and past participle of pox
Source: Wiktionary
POX
Pox, n. Etym: [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.)
Definition: Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.
Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]
Definition: To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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