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.
SCABBARD
scabbard
(noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scabbard (plural scabbards)
The sheath of a sword.
Verb
scabbard (third-person singular simple present scabbards, present participle scabbarding, simple past and past participle scabbarded)
To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
Source: Wiktionary
Scab"bard, n. Etym: [OE. scaubert, scauberk, OF. escaubers, escauberz, pl., scabbards, probably of German or Scan. origin; cf. Icel. skalpr scabbard, and G. bergen to conceal. Cf. Hauberk.]
Definition: The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath. Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax. Scabbard fish (Zoöl.), a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus caudatus, or argyreus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.
Scab"bard, v. t.
Definition: To put in a scabbard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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