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.
ASTRONAUT
astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut
(noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; “the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
astronaut (plural astronauts)
A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
(Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country.
Synonyms
• cosmonaut
Hyponyms
• spationaut
• taikonaut
• vyomanaut
Source: Wiktionary
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INCORPORATE
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
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