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.
FUCOIDS
Noun
fucoids
plural of fucoid
Source: Wiktionary
FUCOID
Fu"coid, a. Etym: [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character. (b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
Fu"coid, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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