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.
STUB
butt, stub
(noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
stub, check stub, counterfoil
(noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record
stub, ticket stub
(noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
nub, stub
(noun) a small piece; “a nub of coal”; “a stub of a pencil”
stub
(noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
stub
(verb) strike (one’s toe) accidentally against an object; “She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it’s broken”
stub
(verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them; “stub a field”
stub
(verb) extinguish by crushing; “stub out your cigarette now”
stub
(verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stub (plural stubs)
Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
(computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
(computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
(wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
(obsolete) A log or block of wood.
(obsolete) A blockhead.
A pen with a short, blunt nib.
An old and worn horseshoe nail.
Stub iron.
The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
Antonyms
• (computer) skeleton (4)
Hyponyms
• stubble
• stump
Verb
stub (third-person singular simple present stubs, present participle stubbing, simple past and past participle stubbed)
(transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
(transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
(transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
Anagrams
• BTUs, TBUs, bust, but's, buts, tubs
Source: Wiktionary
Stub, n. Etym: [OE. stubbe, AS. stub, styb; akin to D. stobbe, LG. stubbe, Dan. stub, Sw. stubbe, Icel. stubbr, stubbi; cf. Gr.
1. The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. Stubs sharp and hideous to behold. Chaucer. And prickly stubs instead of trees are found. Dryden.
2. A log; a block; a blockhead. [Obs.] Milton.
3. The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
4. A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
5. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
6. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened.
– Stub iron, iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels.
– Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed.
– Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail.
– Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off.
– Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.
Stub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stubbing.]
1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land. Berkley.
2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. [U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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