There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
GUILE
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
(noun) the quality of being crafty
craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
guile (countable and uncountable, plural guiles)
(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Verb
guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled)
To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Source: Wiktionary
Guile, n. Etym: [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin, and the same word as E. wile. See Wile.]
Definition: Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.
Guile, v. t. Etym: [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]
Definition: To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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