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.
RADICLE
radicle
(noun) (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
radicle (plural radicles)
(botany) The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
(botany) A rootlet.
(chemistry) Archaic form of radical.
Anagrams
• Cardiel, decrial, radicel
Source: Wiktionary
Rad"i*cle, n. Etym: [L. radicula, dim. of radix, -icis, root: cf. F. radicule. See Radix.] (Bot.) (a) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle. (b) A rootlet; a radicel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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