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.
VELVET
velvet, velvety
(adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
velvet, velvety, velvet-textured
(adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
velvet
(noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
velvet (countable and uncountable, plural velvets)
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
(rare) A female chinchilla; a sow.
(slang) The drug dextromethorphan.
(slang) Money acquired by gambling.
Verb
velvet (third-person singular simple present velvets, present participle velveting, simple past and past participle velveted)
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
(cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
(figurative, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.
(of a cat's claws) to retract.
Adjective
velvet (comparative more velvet, superlative most velvet)
Made of velvet.
Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
(politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Source: Wiktionary
Vel"vet, n. Etym: [OE. velouette, veluet, velwet; cf. OF. velluau, LL. velluetum, vellutum, It. velluto, Sp. velludo; all fr. (assumed) LL. villutus shaggy, fr L. villus shaggy hair; akin to vellus a fleece, and E. wool. See Wool, and cf. Villous.]
1. A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
2. The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton.
– Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.
– Velvet crab a European crab (Portunus puber). When adult the black carapace is covered with a velvety pile. Called also lady crab, and velvet fiddler.
– Velvet dock (Bot.), the common mullein.
– Velvet duck. (Zoƶl.) (a) A large European sea duck, or scoter (Oidemia fusca). The adult male is glossy, velvety black, with a white speculum on each wing, and a white patch behind each eye. (b) The American whitewinged scoter. See Scoter.
– Velvet flower (Bot.), love-lies-bleeding. See under Love.
– Velvet grass (Bot.), a tall grass (Holcus lanatus) with velvety stem and leaves; -- called also soft grass.
– Velvet runner (Zoƶl.), the water rail; -- so called from its quiet, stealthy manner of running. [Prov. Eng.] -- Velvet scoter. (Zoƶl.) Same as Velvet duck, above.
– Velvet sponge. (Zoƶl.) See under Sponge.
Vel"vet, a.
Definition: Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety. " The cowslip's velvet head." Milton.
Vel"vet, v. i.
Definition: To pain velvet. [R.] Peacham.
Vel"vet, v. t.
Definition: To make like, or cover with, velvet. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
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