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.
RIDGED
ridged, carinate, carinated, keeled
(adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship; “a carinate sepal”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
ridged (comparative more ridged, superlative most ridged)
Having ridges.
Synonyms
• enridged
Verb
ridged
simple past tense and past participle of ridge
Anagrams
• dirged, girded, grided
Source: Wiktionary
RIDGE
Ridge, n. Etym: [OE. rigge the back, AS. hrycg; akin to D. rug, G. rÜcken, OHG. rucki, hrukki, Icel. hryggr, Sw. rugg, Dan. ryg. sq. root16.]
1. The back, or top of the back; a crest. Hudibras.
2. A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. "The frozen ridges of the Alps." Shak. Part rise crystal wall, or ridge direct. Milton.
3. A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
4. (Arch.)
Definition: The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
5. (Fort.)
Definition: The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. Stocqueler.
Ridge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ridged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ridging.]
1. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars. Milton.
2. To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
3. To wrinkle. "With a forehead ridged." Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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