There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
HOARY
canescent, hoary
(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down
hoary, rusty
(adjective) ancient; “hoary jokes”
grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; “whose beard with age is hoar”-Coleridge; “nodded his hoary head”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)
White, whitish, or greyish-white.
White or grey with age.
(zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
(botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
(obsolete) Remote in time past.
(obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
Old or old-fashioned.
Synonyms
• (whitish, greyish-white): albescent, griseous, whity
• (white or grey with age): grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired; see also elderly
• (old): aged, ancient, olden; see also old
• (botany: covered with greyish-white hairs): canescent
• (remote in time past): bygone, foregone; see also past
Anagrams
• Yahor
Source: Wiktionary
Hoar"y, a.
1. White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.)
Definition: Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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