The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
ALABASTER
alabaster, alabastrine
(adjective) of or resembling alabaster; “alabaster statue”
alabaster
(noun) a very light white
alabaster
(noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving
alabaster, oriental alabaster, onyx marble, Mexican onyx
(noun) a hard compact kind of calcite
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
alabaster (usually uncountable, plural alabasters)
A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
(historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
An off-white colour, like that of alabaster.
Adjective
alabaster (not comparable)
Made of alabaster
Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
Anagrams
• alabastre
Source: Wiktionary
Al"a*bas"ter, n. Etym: [L. alabaster, Gr. Alabastron, the name of a town in Egypt, near which it was common: cf. OF. alabastre, F. albâtre.]
1. (Min.) (a) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. (b) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
2. A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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