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.
LETTUCE
lettuce
(noun) leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
lettuce
(noun) any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
(noun) informal terms for money
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural lettuces)
An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.
(uncountable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
(uncountable, US, slang) United States paper currency; dollars.
A strong yellow-green colour, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).
Synonyms
• (US paper currency): cabbage, greenbacks, sleepwort
Anagrams
• culette
Source: Wiktionary
Let"tuce, n. Etym: [OE. letuce, prob. through Old French from some Late Latin derivative of L. lactuca lettuce, which, according to Varro, is fr. lac, lactis, milk, on account of the milky white juice which flows from it when it is cut: cf. F. laitue. Cf. Lacteal, Lactucic.] (Bot.)
Definition: A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis. Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb.
– Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium.
– Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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