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.
SUPPLER
Adjective
suppler
comparative form of supple
Anagrams
• Ruppels, luppers, pulpers, purples, repulps
Source: Wiktionary
SUPPLE
Sup"ple, a. Etym: [OE. souple, F. souple, from L. supplex suppliant, perhaps originally, being the knees. Cf. Supplicate.]
1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. Locke.
3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. Addison.
Syn.
– Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft.
Sup"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppled; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppling.]
1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. Spenser.
2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will. Locke. They should supple our stiff willfulness. Barrow.
Sup"ple, v. i.
Definition: To become soft and pliant. The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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