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.
WITE
Etymology 1
Verb
wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
(chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
To reproach, censure, mulct
To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
Etymology 2
Noun
wite (plural wites)
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
Etymology 3
Verb
wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
(obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
Source: Wiktionary
Wite, v. t. Etym: [AS. witan; akin to D. wijten, G. verweisen, Icel. vita to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS. witan to see, L. animadvertere to observe, to punish. Wit, v.]
Definition: To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer. There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. Chaucer.
Wite, n. Etym: [AS. wite punishment. Wite, v.]
Definition: Blame; reproach. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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