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.
SPLAY
splay
(adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner; “splay knees”
splay
(noun) an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
dislocate, luxate, splay, slip
(verb) move out of position; “dislocate joints”; “the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically”
splay
(verb) spread open or apart; “He splayed his huge hands over the table”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
splay (third-person singular simple present splays, present participle splaying, simple past and past participle splayed)
To spread; spread out.
Synonyms: spread, spread out, broaden, widen, display (obsolete)
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
Synonym: dislocate
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
Synonyms: slope, slant
(comptheory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
Adjective
splay (comparative more splay, superlative most splay)
Spread out; turned outward.
Flat and ungainly.
Noun
splay (plural splays)
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Anagrams
• palsy, plays, spyal
Source: Wiktionary
Splay, v. t. Etym: [Abbrev. of display.]
1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] "Our ensigns splayed." Gascoigne.
2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss.
Splay, a.
Definition: Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. M. Arnold.
Splay, a. (Arch.)
Definition: A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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