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.
BASIDIUM
basidium
(noun) a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
basidium (plural basidia)
(mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.
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• diiambus
Source: Wiktionary
Ba*sid"i*um, n. Etym: [NL., dim. of Gr. base.] (Bot.)
Definition: A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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