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.
VENTUROUS
audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous
(adjective) disposed to venture or take risks; “audacious visions of the total conquest of space”; “an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas”; “the most daring of contemporary fiction writers”; “a venturesome investor”; “a venturous spirit”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
venturous (comparative more venturous, superlative most venturous)
Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.
Source: Wiktionary
Ven"tur*ous, a. Etym: [Aphetic form of OE. aventurous. See Adventurous, Venture, n.]
Definition: Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adveturous; as, a venturous soldier. Spenser. This said, he paused not, but with venturous arm He plucked, he tasted. Milton.
– Ven"tur*ous*ly, adv.
– Ven"tur*ous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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