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.
LOXODROMIC
Etymology
Adjective
loxodromic (not comparable)
(nautical) Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.
Source: Wiktionary
Lox`o*drom"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. loxodromique.]
Definition: Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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