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.
ROSINED
Verb
rosined
simple past tense and past participle of rosin
Anagrams
• indorse, ordines, ride-ons, siredon, sordine
Source: Wiktionary
ROSIN
Ros"in, n. Etym: [A variant of resin.]
Definition: The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony. Rosin oil, an oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree, -- used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc.
Ros"in, v. t.
Definition: To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin. Or with the rosined bow torment the string. Gay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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