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.
PERNICIOUS
insidious, pernicious, subtle
(adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; “glaucoma is an insidious disease”; “a subtle poison”
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
(adjective) exceedingly harmful
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
pernicious (comparative more pernicious, superlative most pernicious)
Causing much harm in a subtle way.
Causing death or injury; deadly.
Synonym: attery
Anagrams
• superionic
Source: Wiktionary
Per*ni"cious, a. Etym: [L. pernix, -icis.]
Definition: Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.
Per*ni"cious, a. Etym: [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.]
Definition: Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.
Syn.
– Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
– Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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