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.
UPPERS
Noun
uppers
plural of upper
The parts of a pair of shoes that do not normally contact the ground.
Anagrams
• Ruppes, supper
Source: Wiktionary
UPPER
Up"per, a.; comp. of Up.
Definition: Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.).
– Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth.
– Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
– Upper covert (Zoöl.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills.
– Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck.
– Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes.
– Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
– Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] -- Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail.
– Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water.
– Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.
Up"per, n.
Definition: The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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