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.
PAUCITY
dearth, paucity
(noun) an insufficient quantity or number
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)
Fewness in number; too few.
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
Synonyms
• (fewness in number): See fewness
• (smallness in size or amount): dearth, scantiness, scarcity; see also lack
Source: Wiktionary
Pau"ci*ty, n. Etym: [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité See Few.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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