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.
ZILCH
nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
(noun) a quantity of no importance; “it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”; “reduced to nil all the work we had done”; “we racked up a pathetic goose egg”; “it was all for naught”; “I didn’t hear zilch about it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Zilch
A surname.
Etymology
Noun
zilch (countable and uncountable, plural zilches)
(countable, informal, archaic) A nobody: a person who is worthless in importance or character.
Synonym: Thesaurus:nonentity
(uncountable, informal) Nothing, zero.
Synonym: Thesaurus:nothing
Adjective
zilch (not comparable)
(informal, mostly US) No, zero, non-existent.
Verb
zilch (third-person singular simple present zilches, present participle zilching, simple past and past participle zilched)
(informal, US sports) To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat.
Synonyms
• shutout
Source: Wiktionary
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