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.
SULLY
Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
(noun) French statesman (1560-1641)
Sully, Thomas Sully
(noun) United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; “The journalists have defamed me!”; “The article in the paper sullied my reputation”
tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile
(verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; “The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”; “Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man”
defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud
(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; “sully someone’s reputation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
sully (third-person singular simple present sullies, present participle sullying, simple past and past participle sullied)
(transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
Synonym: sowl (obsolete)
(transitive) To corrupt or damage.
(intransitive ergative) To become soiled or tarnished.
Coordinate terms
• (to corrupt or damage): besmirch, debase, stain, tarnish
Noun
sully (plural sullies)
(rare, obsolete) A blemish.
Proper noun
Sully (countable and uncountable, plural Sullys)
A surname.
Diminutive of Sullivan
A coastal village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (OS grid ref ST1568).
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sully is the 30767th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 757 individuals. Sully is most common among White (54.56%), Black/African American (25.36%), and null (10.17%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Sul"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sullied; p. pr. & vb. n. Sullying.] Etym: [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to G. suhle mire, sich, sühlen to wallow, Sw. söla to bemire, Dan. söle, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.]
Definition: To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. Roscommon. No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity. Atterbury.
Sul"ly, v. i.
Definition: To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon.
Sul"ly, n.; pl. Sullies (.
Definition: Soil; tarnish; stain. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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