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.
PASTURING
Verb
pasturing
present participle of pasture
Noun
pasturing (countable and uncountable, plural pasturings)
The process of putting an animal out to pasture.
Land used as pasture.
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Source: Wiktionary
PASTURE
Pas"ture, n. Etym: [OF. pasture, F. pâture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]
1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser.
2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. Ps. xxiii. 2. So graze as you find pasture. Shak.
Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.]
Definition: To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
Pas"ture, v. i.
Definition: To feed on growing grass; to graze.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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