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.
PENICILLINASE
penicillinase, beta-lactamase
(noun) enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
penicillinase (countable and uncountable, plural penicillinases)
(biochemistry) A specific type of beta-lactamase showing specificity for penicillins.
Source: Wiktionary
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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