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.
DRAINAGE
drain, drainage
(noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
drainage (countable and uncountable, plural drainages)
A natural or artificial removal of fluid from a given area by its draining away.
A system of drains.
Anagrams
• gardenia
Source: Wiktionary
Drain"age, n.
1. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
3. (Engin.)
Definition: The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.
5. (Surg.)
Definition: The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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