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.
POLYPITE
Etymology
Noun
polypite (plural polypites)
(rare) A fossil polyp
(rare) An individual polyp of a colonial cnidarian
Source: Wiktionary
Pol"y*pite, n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian. (b) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.
2. (Paleon.)
Definition: A fossil coral.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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