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.
RASPING
grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy
(adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; “a gravelly voice”
rasp, rasping
(noun) uttering in an irritated tone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
rasping (comparative more rasping, superlative most rasping)
raspy
exasperating
Verb
rasping
present participle of rasp
Noun
rasping (plural raspings)
A sound that rasps.
The act of rasping as with a file.
Anagrams
• gnisrap, parings, parsing, rapings, sparing
Source: Wiktionary
RASP
Rasp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rasped; p. pr. & vb. n. Rasping.] Etym: [OF. rasper, F. râper, to scrape, grate, rasp, fr. OHG. raspon to scrape together, to collect, probably akin to E. rap. Cf. Rap to snatch.]
1. To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
2. Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
Rasp, n. Etym: [OE. raspe, OF. raspe, F. râpe. See Rasp, v.]
1. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
2. The raspberry. [Obs.] "Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller." Bacon. Rasp palm (Bot.), a Brazilian palm tree (Iriartea exorhiza) which has strong aërial roots like a screw pine. The roots have a hard, rough surface, and are used by the natives for graters and rasps, whence the common name.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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