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.
THALLOPHYTE
thallophyte
(noun) any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
thallophyte (plural thallophytes)
(botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.
Synonyms
• (plant consisting of thallus only): thallogen
Coordinate terms
• cormophyte
Source: Wiktionary
Thal"lo*phyte, n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Same as Thallogen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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