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.
SPRUE
sprue, tropical sprue, psilosis
(noun) a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
sprue (plural sprues)
(medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
Synonyms
• tropical sprue
Etymology 2
Noun
sprue (plural sprues)
(founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
(founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
Verb
sprue (third-person singular simple present sprues, present participle spruing, simple past and past participle sprued)
To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.
Anagrams
• Pre-Us, Purse, Rupes, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, rupes, super, super-
Source: Wiktionary
Sprue, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. (Founding) (a) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
2. (Med.)
Definition: Same as Sprew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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