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.
DECLIVITY
descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
(noun) a downward slope or bend
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
declivity (plural declivities)
(geomorphology) The downward slope of a hill; the downward slope of a curve.
A downward bend in a path.
(entomology) An inward curve of the exoskeleton of an insect, such as between body segments; a segment of an insect's body where the exoskeleton curves inward.
Source: Wiktionary
De*cliv"i*ty, n.; pl. Declivities. Etym: [L. declivitas, fr. declivis sloping, downhill; de + clivus a slope, a hill; akin to clinare to incline: cf. F. déclivité. See Decline.]
1. Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
2. A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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