There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
STICCADO
Etymology
Noun
sticcado (plural not attested)
(musical instruments) A musical instrument resembling a xylophone.
Anagrams
• cactoids
Source: Wiktionary
Stic*ca"do, n. Etym: [Cf. It. steccato a palisade.] (Mus.)
Definition: An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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