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.
FLECK
spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; “a bit of rock caught him in the eye”
spot, fleck, blob, blot
(verb) make a spot or mark onto; “The wine spotted the tablecloth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fleck (plural flecks)
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
Verb
fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)
(transitive) To mark with small spots
Proper noun
Fleck
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Fleck, n.
Definition: A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.
Fleck, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fläck, D. vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
Definition: A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.
Fleck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flecking.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fläcka, D. vlekken, vlakken, G. flecken. See Fleck, n.]
Definition: To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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