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.
COCOYAM
taro, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, edda
(noun) tropical starchy tuberous root
taro, cocoyam, dasheen, eddo
(noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cocoyam (plural cocoyams)
New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.
Old cocoyam: Colocasia esculenta; taro.
Synonyms
• (new cocoyam): yautia, new cocoyam, otoe, otoy, macabo, malanga, quequisque
• (old cocyam): taro, dasheen
• (to be sorted): tanier, tannia, tannier, taioba
Source: Wiktionary
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