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.
GYNOCRACY
Etymology
Noun
gynocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gynocracies)
(government, sociology) synonym of gynecocracy
Source: Wiktionary
Gy*noc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [See Gynecocracy.]
Definition: Female government; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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APPARENTLY
(adverb) from appearances alone; “irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land”; “the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned”; “had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it”-Thomas Hardy; “on the face of it the problem seems minor”
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