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.
JETTIER
Adjective
jettier
comparative form of jetty
Source: Wiktionary
JETTY
Jet"ty, a.
Definition: Made of jet, or like jet in color. The people . . . are of a jetty. Sir T. Browne.
Jet"ty, n.; pl. Jetties. Etym: [F.jetée a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Jutty.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
3. (Hydraul. Engin.)
Definition: A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Jetty ad (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.
Jet"ty, v. i.
Definition: To jut out; to project. [Obs.] Florio.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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