Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ABSTERSIVE
Etymology
Adjective
abstersive (comparative more abstersive, superlative most abstersive)
Cleansing; purging; abstergent. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Noun
abstersive (plural abstersives)
(now, rare) Something cleansing; detergent; abstergent. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*ster"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. abstersif. See Absterge.]
Definition: Cleansing; purging. Bacon.
Ab*ster"sive, n.
Definition: Something cleansing. The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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