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.
MONOCEROS
Etymology
Noun
monoceros (plural monoceroses)
(obsolete) A unicorn.
(obsolete) A narwhal.
Etymology
Proper noun
Monoceros
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a unicorn. It lies amid the Milky Way, just east of the constellation Orion.
Source: Wiktionary
Mo*noc"e*ros, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
1. A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn. Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails. Spenser.
2. (Astron.)
Definition: The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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