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.
GLOBULAR
global, ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical
(adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball; “a spherical object”; “nearly orbicular in shape”; “little globular houses like mud-wasp nests”- Zane Grey
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
globular (comparative more globular, superlative most globular)
Roughly spherical in shape.
Comprising globules.
Noun
globular (plural globulars)
(astronomy) A globular cluster
Source: Wiktionary
Glob"u*lar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. globulaire.]
Definition: Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection.
– Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45Âş.
– Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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