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.
ROLLBACK
rollback
(noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level
rollback, push back
(noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rollback (countable and uncountable, plural rollbacks)
A return to a prior state by undoing some operation.
A withdrawal of military forces.
(databases) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
(informal, mechanics' jargon) A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically as a tow truck or for transporting other vehicles.
(US, politics) The policy of totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
Synonyms
• (form of flatbed truck): slide truck
• (politics): regime change
Antonyms
• containment
• détente
Verb
rollback (third-person singular simple present rollbacks, present participle rollbacking, simple past and past participle rollbacked)
(transitive, computing) Return to the previous state.
Anagrams
• backroll, corkball
Source: Wiktionary
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