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.
ALTRICES
Etymology
Noun
altrices pl (plural only)
(zoology) nursers; those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time.
Antonyms
• praecoces
Anagrams
• articles, clairets, ratsicle, recitals, sclarite, selictar, sterical
Source: Wiktionary
Al*tri"ces, n. pl. Etym: [L., nourishes, pl. of altrix.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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