There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
CUIRASSED
Etymology
Adjective
cuirassed (not comparable)
Wearing a cuirass.
(zoology) Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; said of certain fishes.
Source: Wiktionary
Cui*rassed" (kw-rst` or kw`rst), a.
1. Wearing a cuirass.
2. (Zoöl)
Definition: Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- said of certain fishes.
CUIRASS
Cui*rass" (kw-rs`, or kw`rs; 277), n.; pl. Cuirasses(-. Etym: [ F.cuirasse, orig., a breascuir, cuirie influenced by It. corazza, or Sp. cora, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L. coriacevs, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin to Gr. skora hide, Lith. skura hide, leather. Cf. Coriaceous.]
1. (a) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. (b) The breastplate taken by itself.
Note: The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal. Crose.
2. (Zoöl)
Definition: An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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