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.
ACCESSORILY
Etymology
Adverb
accessorily (comparative more accessorily, superlative most accessorily)
In the manner of an accessory; auxiliarily.
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*ces"so*ri*ly, adv.
Definition: In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.
ACCESSORY
Ac*ces"so*ry (#; 277), a. Etym: [L. accessorius. See Access, and cf. Accessary.]
Definition: Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
Note: Ash accents the antepenult; and this is not only more regular, but preferable, on account of easiness of pronunciation. Most orhoëpists place the accent on the first syllable.
Syn.
– Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; subservient; additional; acceding.
Ac*ces"so*ry, n.; pl. Accessories.
1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.
2. (Law)
Definition: Same as Accessary, n.
3. (Fine Arts)
Definition: Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.
Syn.
– Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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