robusta-coffee

ro·bus·ta cof·fee

[roh-buhs-tuh]
noun
1.
a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
2.
the seed of this plant.
3.
the coffee made from the seeds.
Also called ro·bus·ta.
Compare arabica coffee.


Origin:
1905–10; robusta < Latin rōbusta, feminine of rōbustus robust

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robusta coffee

noun
native to West Africa but grown in Java and elsewhere; resistant to coffee rust 
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Robusta-coffee is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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