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.
CALCIFIED
CALCIFY
calcify
(verb) convert into lime; “the salts calcified the rock”
calcify
(verb) turn into lime; become calcified; “The rock calcified over the centuries”
calcify
(verb) become impregnated with calcium salts
calcify
(verb) become inflexible and unchanging; “Old folks can calcify”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
calcified
simple past tense and past participle of calcify
Adjective
calcified (comparative more calcified, superlative most calcified)
Hardened from the deposit of calcium salts.
Made unchanging or inflexible.
Source: Wiktionary
Cal"ci*fied, a.
Definition: Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
CALCIFY
Cal"ci*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcified; p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying.] Etym: [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.]
Definition: To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Cal"ci*fy, v. i.
Definition: To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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