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.
WOODLOUSE
woodlouse, wood louse, slater
(noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
woodlouse (plural woodlice)
Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.
Synonyms
• (any species of suborder Oniscidea): oniscidean
(local terms): slater, armadillo bug, butcher boy, cheese-bug, cheesybug, pill bug, rolly polly, sowbug, sai bug, saisai gnat, saikor bug, sairynkor bug, cham chamruam bug;
Source: Wiktionary
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RESTORATION
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