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.
STRIA
band, banding, stria, striation
(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; “chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands”; “the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps”
stria, striation
(noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stria (plural striae or striæ)
A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
(architecture) One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.
A stretch mark.
Anagrams
• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, Stair, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stair, tarsi, tiars, tisar
Source: Wiktionary
Stri"a, n.; pl. Striæ. Etym: [L., a furrow, channel, hollow.]
1. A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striæ, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striæ on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
2. (Arch.)
Definition: A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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