There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
CRENATION
scallop, crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle
(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crenation (countable and uncountable, plural crenations)
(biology) The contraction of, or formation of abnormal notchings around, the edges of a cell after exposure to a hypertonic solution, due to the loss of water through osmosis, especially noticeable in red blood cells.
(botany) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
The condition of being crenate.
Anagrams
• container, cotarnine, narcotine
Source: Wiktionary
Cre*na"tion (kr-n"shn), n.
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
2. The condition of being crenate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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MONASTICISM
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
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