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.
PROTO
proto
(adjective) indicating the first or earliest or original; “‘proto’ is a combining form in a word like ‘protolanguage’ that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
proto (not comparable)
Prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something
Anagrams
• Porto, Troop, porto, porto-, proot, troop, tropo, tropo-
Proper noun
Proto (plural Protos)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Proto is the 21009th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1252 individuals. Proto is most common among White (92.73%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Porto, Troop, porto, porto-, proot, troop, tropo, tropo-
Source: Wiktionary
Pro"to-. Etym: [Gr. prw os first, a superl. fr. Pro-.]
1. A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.
2. (Chem.) (a) Denoting the first or lowest of a series, or the one having the smallest amount of the element to the name of which it is prefixed; as protoxide, protochloride, etc. (b) Sometimes used as equivalent to mono-, as indicating that the compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is prefixed. Also used adjectively.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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