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.
RASTER
raster
(noun) the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
raster (plural rasters)
A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
(computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
Synonyms: bitmap, pixmap
Coordinate term: vector
Verb
raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)
To scan in parallel lines.
Anagrams
• Arters, arrest, rarest, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras
Source: Wiktionary
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