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.
LONESOME
lonely, lonesome
(adjective) marked by dejection from being alone; “felt sad and lonely”; “the loneliest night of the week”; “lonesome when her husband is away”; “spent a lonesome hour in the bar”
lonesome, lone(a), only, sole, solitary
(adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others; “the lone doctor in the entire county”; “a lonesome pine”; “an only child”; “the sole heir”; “the sole example”; “a solitary instance of cowardice”; “a solitary speck in the sky”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
lonesome (comparative more lonesome, superlative most lonesome)
Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.
Noun
lonesome (plural lonesomes)
(informal) Oneself alone.
Source: Wiktionary
Lone"some, a. [Compar. Lonesomer; superl. Lonesomest.]
1. Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge .
2. Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.
– Lone"some*ly, adv.
– Lone"some*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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