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.
GABBRO
gabbro
(noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gabbro (countable and uncountable, plural gabbros)
(rock) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
Source: Wiktionary
Gab"bro, n. Etym: [It.] (Geol.)
Definition: A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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