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.
BLACKHEAD
blackhead, comedo
(noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)
(countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
(uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
(countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
Source: Wiktionary
Black"head`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The scaup duck.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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