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.
FILMY
diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
(adjective) so thin as to transmit light; “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
filmy (comparative filmier, superlative filmiest)
Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy
Source: Wiktionary
Film"y, a.
Definition: Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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