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.
SPECKLE
spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
speckle, bespeckle
(verb) mark with small spots; “speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots”
stipple, speckle
(verb) produce a mottled effect; “The sunlight stippled the trees”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
speckle (countable and uncountable, plural speckles)
A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
(physics) The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
(Scotland) Kind; sort.
(cytology) A cluster of interchromatin granules in a nucleus
Verb
speckle (third-person singular simple present speckles, present participle speckling, simple past and past participle speckled)
To mark with speckles.
Source: Wiktionary
Spec"kle, n. Etym: [Dim. of speck; cf. D. spikkel.]
Definition: A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.
Spec"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Speckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Speckling.]
Definition: To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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