Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
ACCRESCENT
Etymology
Adjective
accrescent (comparative more accrescent, superlative most accrescent)
Growing; increasing.
(botany) Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cres"cent, a. Etym: [L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent.]
1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Growing larger after flowering. Gray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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