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.
SILT
silt
(noun) mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)
(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Synonym: slitch
(uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
(countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Verb
silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)
(transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
(intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
(ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Anagrams
• &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils
Source: Wiktionary
Silt, n. Etym: [OE. silte gravel, fr. silen to drain, E. sile; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. sila, prob. akin to AS. seĂłn to filter, sigan to fall, sink, cause to sink, G. seihen to strain, to filter, OHG. sihan, Icel.sia, Skr. sic to pour; cf. Gr. Sig, Sile.]
Definition: Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Silt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silted; p. pr. & vb. n. Silting.]
Definition: To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
Silt, v. i.
Definition: To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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