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.
PULSATE
pulse, pulsate
(verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; “pulse waves”; “a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube”
pulsate, throb, pulse
(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; “The baby’s heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it”
pulsate, beat, quiver
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; “the city pulsated with music and excitement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
pulsate (third-person singular simple present pulsates, present participle pulsating, simple past and past participle pulsated)
To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
Anagrams
• puteals, septula, spatule, upsteal
Source: Wiktionary
Pul"sate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pulsated; p. pr. & vb. n. Pulsating.] Etym: [L. pulsatus, p. p. of pulsare to beat, strike, v. intens. fr. pellere to beat, strike, drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pulse, v.]
Definition: To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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