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.
HEMITROPAL
Adjective
hemitropal (not comparable)
Of a crystal: having one part in reverse position with reference to the other part; twinned.
Source: Wiktionary
He*mit"ro*pal, He*mit"ro*pous, a. Etym: [See Hemitrope.]
1. Turned half round; half inverted.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule. Gray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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