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.
AMASS
accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
(verb) collect or gather; “Journals are accumulating in my office”; “The work keeps piling up”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)
(transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
(transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
Synonyms
• (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also pile up
• (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also amass
Noun
amass (plural amasses)
(obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
(obsolete) The act of amassing.
Anagrams
• Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa
Source: Wiktionary
A*mass", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Amassing.] Etym: [F. ambusher, LL. amassare; L. ad + massa lump, mass. See Mass.]
Definition: To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.
Syn.
– To accumulate; heap up; pile.
A*mass", n. Etym: [OF. amasse, fr. ambusher.]
Definition: A mass; a heap. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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