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The name brazil is derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word brasil, the name of an East Indian tree with reddish-brown wood from which a red dye was extracted.
Mostly neutral coffee for blending purposes, but better coffees have more distinctive qualities of low acidity, clove and allspice aromas.
The second largest of the South American cotton producing countries. With annual raw cotton consumption currently estimated at 700,000/800,000 tonnes, Brazil vies with China and Indonesia for the title of the world's biggest importer or raw cotton.
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil ( or , Some possible pronunciations:IPA: , , , , . Brazilian Portuguese has no official standard pronunciation, so may change from region to region. European Portuguese pronunciation of the official name of Brazil is: .