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.
BUTLERAGE
Etymology
Noun
butlerage (countable and uncountable, plural butlerages)
(legal, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
Source: Wiktionary
But"ler*age, n. (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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