There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata
(noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
balata, gutta balata
(noun) when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
Source: WordNet® 3.1
balata (countable and uncountable, plural balatas)
Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
The latex obtained from this tree.
• albata, atabal
Source: Wiktionary
Bal"a*ta, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.]
1.
Definition: A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).
2. The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.