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.
TONICALLY
Etymology
Adverb
tonically (not comparable)
in a tonic manner
Anagrams
• clonality, ontically
Source: Wiktionary
TONIC
Ton"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tonigue, Gr. Tone.]
1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
2. Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
3. (Med.)
Definition: Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. (Med.) See the Note under Spasm.
Ton"ic, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tonigue, NL. tonicum.]
1. (Phon.)
Definition: A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: The key tone, or first tone of any scale.
3. (Med.)
Definition: A medicine that increases the srength, and gives vigor of action to the system. Tonic sol-fa (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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