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.
HYDROMEDUSA
Noun
hydromedusa (plural hydromedusas or hydromedusae)
The South American snake-necked turtle.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy`dro*me*du"sa, n.; pl. Hydromedusæ. Etym: [NL. See Hydra, and Medusa.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusæ.
Note: Such medusæ are the reproductive zooids or gonophores, either male or female, of the hydroid from which they arise, whether they become free or remain attached to the hydroid colony. They in turn produce the eggs from which the hydroids are developed. The name is also applied to other similar medusæ which are not known to bud from a hydroid colony, and even to some which are known to develop directly from the eggs, but which in structure agree essentially with those produced from hydroids. See Hydroidea, and Gymnoblastea.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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