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.
AUTOPHAGY
Etymology
Noun
autophagy (uncountable)
(biology) The process of self-digestion by a cell through the action of enzymes originating within the same cell. Often a defensive and/or self-preservation measure.
(biology) A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion.
(rare) Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself.
Synonyms
• (self-consumption): autocannibalism
Coordinate terms
• (programmed cell death): apoptosis
Source: Wiktionary
Au*toph"a*gy, n. [Gr. self + to eat.] (Med.)
Definition: The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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