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.
STOLON
stolon, runner, offset
(noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stolon (plural stolons)
(botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
(zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
(mycology) A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
Anagrams
• Tolson
Source: Wiktionary
Sto"lon, n. Etym: [L. stolo, -onis: cf. F. stolon. Cf. Stole a stolon, 1st Stool.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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