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.
CORPUS
corpus
(noun) the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
corpus
(noun) a collection of writings; “he edited the Hemingway corpus”
principal, corpus, principal sum
(noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
corpus (plural corpora or corpuses or corpusses or corpi)
A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.
Synonyms: collection, compilation, aggregation, Thesaurus:body
(specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
Synonyms: digital corpus, text corpus
(uncommon) A body, a collection.
Synonyms: collection, Thesaurus:body
Etymology 2
Noun
corpus (uncountable)
(printing, dated) synonym of long primer
Anagrams
• croups
Etymology
Proper noun
Corpus
(informal) Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
Source: Wiktionary
Cor"pus (-ps), n.; pl. Corpora (-p. Etym: [L.]
Definition: A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. Corpus callosum (k; pl. Corpora callosa (-s Etym: [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See Brain.
– Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
– Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx.
– Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.
– Corpus luteum (l; pl. Corpora lutea (-. Etym: [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.
– Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THEORETICAL
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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