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.
MURRAIN
murrain
(noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
murrain (countable and uncountable, plural murrains)
(archaic) Plague, infectious disease, pestilence.
(now chiefly historical, veterinary medicine) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle such as anthrax.
Source: Wiktionary
Mur"rain, n. Etym: [OE. moreine, OF. morine, fr. OF. morir, murir, 8die, L. mori, moriri.] (Far.)
Definition: An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. Bacon. A murrain on you, may you be afflicted with a pestilent disease. Shak.
Mur"rain, a.
Definition: Having, or afflicted with, murrain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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