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.
STEEPLES
Noun
steeples
plural of steeple
Verb
steeples
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of steeple
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Source: Wiktionary
STEEPLE
Stee"ple, n. Etym: [OE. stepel, AS. stepel, st; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.)
Definition: A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood.
– Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack.
– Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.
– Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase.
– Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead.
– Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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