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.
STANNEL
Etymology
From an Old English word, literally "stone yeller", i.e. a bird that calls from the rocks.
Noun
stannel (plural stannels)
(obsolete) kestrel
Anagrams
• lannets
Source: Wiktionary
Stan"nel, n. Etym: [AS. stangella, stangilla; properly, stone yeller, i.e., a bird that yells from the rocks. See Stone, and Yell, and cf. Stonegall.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.] With what wing the staniel checks at it. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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