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.
SALIVATE
salivate
(verb) produce saliva; “We salivated when he described the great meal”
salivate, drool
(verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; “She was salivating over the raise she anticipated”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
salivate (third-person singular simple present salivates, present participle salivating, simple past and past participle salivated)
(intransitive) To produce saliva.
(intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.
Anagrams
• aestival, availest, æstival
Source: Wiktionary
Sal"i*vate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salivated; p. pr. & vb. n. Salivating.] Etym: [L. salivatus, p.p. of salivare to salivate. See Saliva.]
Definition: To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise.
Note: Probably influenced by the experiments of Pavlov, who trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, by previously ringing the bell immediately prior to feeding them.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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