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.
VICTUAL
comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals
(noun) any substance that can be used as food
victual
(verb) take in nourishment
victual
(verb) lay in provisions; “The vessel victualled before the long voyage”
victual
(verb) supply with food; “The population was victualed during the war”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
victual (plural victuals)
(archaic) Food fit for human consumption.
(archaic, in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
(Scotland) Grain of any kind.
Verb
victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle victualling or victualing, simple past and past participle victualled or victualed)
(transitive, especially nautical, military) To provide with food; to provision.
(intransitive, especially nautical, military) To lay in food supplies.
(intransitive) To eat.
Source: Wiktionary
Vict"ual, n.
1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. 2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. Knolles. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.
2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Vict"ual, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed or Victualled; p. pr. & vb. n. Victualing or Victualling.]
Definition: To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. I must go victual Orleans forthwith. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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