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.
OPEROSE
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”; “a grueling campaign”; “hard labor”; “heavy work”; “heavy going”; “spent many laborious hours on the project”; “set a punishing pace”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
operose (comparative more operose, superlative most operose)
(now, rare) Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking. [from 16th c.]
(now, rare) Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious. [from 17th c.]
(now, rare) Tedious, wearisome.
Anagrams
• roopees
Source: Wiktionary
Op"er*ose`. a. Etym: [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.]
Definition: Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. "Operose proceeding." Burke. "A very operose calculation." De Quincey.
– Op"er*ose`ly, adv.
– Op"er*ose`ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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