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.
REDIA
Etymology
Named after Redi, an Italian naturalist.
Noun
redia (plural redias or rediae)
the larva of some trematodes, some of which become cercariae
Anagrams
• Dirae, adire, aider, aired, deair, idear, irade
Source: Wiktionary
Re"di*a (r"d*), n.; pl. L. RediƦ (-e), E. Redias (-. Etym: [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediƦ, or else cercariƦ within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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