There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
PORING
Verb
poring
present participle of pore
Noun
poring (plural porings)
The act of one who pores.
Anagrams
• roping
Source: Wiktionary
PORE
Pore, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. porus, Gr. Fare, v.]
1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
Pore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pored; p. pr. & vb. n. Poring.] Etym: [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]
Definition: To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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