There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
HETEROSCIAN
Etymology
Noun
heteroscian (plural heteroscians)
One who lives either north or south of the Tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them.
Source: Wiktionary
Het`er*os"cian, n. Etym: [Gr. hétéroscien.]
Definition: One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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