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.
FLUTTERING
flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering
(noun) the motion made by flapping up and down
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
fluttering (plural flutterings)
Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
Verb
fluttering
present participle of flutter
Source: Wiktionary
FLUTTER
Flut"ter, v. t.
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
Flut"ter, n.
1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan. The chirp and flutter of some single bird Milnes. .
2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder. Pope. Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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