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.
TAGS
Noun
TAGs
plural of TAG
Anagrams
• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, gast, gats, stag
Noun
tags
plural of tag
Verb
tags
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tag
Anagrams
• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, gast, gats, stag
Source: Wiktionary
TAG
Tag, n. Etym: [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]
1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Definition: A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
Note: Frequently it is held in the private home or in a yard attached to a private home belonging to the seller. Similar to a yard sale or garage sale. Compare flea market, where used items are sold by many individuals in a place rented for the purpose.
Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging.]
1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
Tag, v. i.
Definition: To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
Tag, n. Etym: [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.]
Definition: A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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