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.
GRISTLE
cartilage, gristle
(noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gristle (countable and uncountable, plural gristles)
Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
(figuratively, from obsolete scientific theory) Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.
Anagrams
• Stigler, glister, riglets
Source: Wiktionary
Gris"tle, n. Etym: [OE. gristel, gristil, AS. gristl; akin to OFries. gristel, grestel. Perh. a dim. of grist but cf. OHG. krustila, krostela. Cf. Grist.] (Anat.)
Definition: Cartilage. See Cartilage. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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