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.
RUMINANT
ruminant
(adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; “ruminant mammals”
ruminant
(noun) any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
ruminant (comparative more ruminant, superlative most ruminant)
Chewing cud.
Pondering; ruminative.
• G. K. Chesterton
Noun
ruminant (plural ruminants)
An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
Hyponyms
• See also ruminant
Source: Wiktionary
Ru"mi*nant, a. Etym: [L. ruminans, -antis, p.pr.: cf. F. ruminant. See Ruminate.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
Ru"mi*nant, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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