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.
TRAVAIL
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
(noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work; “he got an A for effort”; “they managed only with great exertion”
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; “she was in labor for six hours”
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(verb) work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
travail (plural travails or travaux)
(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. [from 13th c.]
Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
(obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). [14th-18th c.]
(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object. [17th c.]
Obsolete form of travel.
Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”)
Etymology 2
Verb
travail (third-person singular simple present travails, present participle travailing, simple past and past participle travailed)
To toil.
To go through the labor of childbirth.
Source: Wiktionary
Trav"ail (; 48), n. Etym: [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf. Travel.]
1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.
2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] Etym: [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Trav"ail, v. t
Definition: To harass; to tire. [Obs.] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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