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.
ROWELED
Verb
roweled
simple past tense and past participle of rowel
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ROWEL
Row"el, n. Etym: [OF. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel, F. rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, and cf. Rota.]
1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.
2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser.
3. (Far.)
Definition: A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
Row"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweled or Rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling.] (Far.)
Definition: To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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