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.
PLEONASM
pleonasm
(noun) using more words than necessary; “a tiny little child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)
(uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
(countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
Coordinate terms
• ellipsis
Anagrams
• neoplasm, planemos
Source: Wiktionary
Ple"o*nasm, ( n. Etym: [L. pleonasmus, Gr. Full, a., and cf. Poly-, Plus.] (Rhet.)
Definition: Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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