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.
BUTTONED
buttoned, fastened
(adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
buttoned
simple past tense and past participle of button
Adjective
buttoned (comparative more buttoned, superlative most buttoned)
with buttons fastened
Source: Wiktionary
BUTTON
But"ton, n. Etym: [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end.]
1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
3. A bud; a germ of a plant. Shak.
4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
5. A globule of metal remaining onan assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves.
– Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella.
– Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads.
– Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies.
– To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
But"ton, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Buttoning.] Etym: [OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See Button, n.]
1. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens.
2. To dress or clothe. [Obs.] Shak.
But"ton, v. i.
Definition: To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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