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.
DIGITATE
digitate, fingerlike
(adjective) resembling a finger; “digitate leaves of the horse chestnut”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
digitate (not comparable)
Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
(botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Verb
digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)
To point out as with the finger.
(botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Dig"i*tate, v. t. Etym: [LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare, fr. L. digitus. See Digit.]
Definition: To point out as with the finger. [R.] Robinson (Eudoxa).
Dig"i*tate, Dig"i*ta`ted, a. Etym: [L. digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.)
Definition: Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
– Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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