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.
CUD
chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad
(noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco
cud, rechewed food
(noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
cud (countable and uncountable, plural cuds)
The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
Verb
cud (third-person singular simple present cuds, present participle cudding, simple past and past participle cudded)
(transitive) To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
Etymology 2
Verb
cud
(nonstandard, informal) Alternative form of could
Anagrams
• CDU, DCU, UCD, UDC, ucd
Noun
CUD (uncountable)
(database, programming) The basic operations of a database management system; Acronym of create, update, delete.
Anagrams
• CDU, DCU, UCD, UDC, ucd
Source: Wiktionary
Cud (kd), n Etym: [AS. cudu, cwudu,cwidu,cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. k bait, Icel. kvi womb, Goth. qipus. Cf. Quid.]
1. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3
2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]
3. The first stomach of ruminating beasts. Crabb. To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories. Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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