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.
ANNUL
revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
(verb) cancel officially; “He revoked the ban on smoking”; “lift an embargo”; “vacate a death sentence”
invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify
(verb) declare invalid; “The contract was annulled”; “void a plea”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
annul (third-person singular simple present annuls, present participle annulling, simple past and past participle annulled)
(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
(transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
Anagrams
• Luann, Lunan
Source: Wiktionary
An*nul", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Annulling.] Etym: [F. annuler, LL. annullare, annulare, fr. L. ad to + nullus none, nullum, neut., nothing. See Null, a.]
1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.
2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.
Syn.
– To abolish; abrogate; repeal; cancel; reverse; rescind; revoke; nullify; destroy. See Abolish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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