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.
CEPHALOSPORIN
cephalosporin, Mefoxin
(noun) one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cephalosporin (plural cephalosporins)
Any of a class of natural and synthetic antibiotics developed from Acremonium fungi, having a cepham structure.
Source: Wiktionary
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ELLIPSE
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
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