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.
BOTTLES
Noun
bottles
plural of bottle
Verb
bottles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bottle
Anagrams
• boltest, setbolt
Source: Wiktionary
BOTTLE
Bot"tle, n. Etym: [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]
1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] Shak.
– Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
– Bottle fish (Zoöl.), a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
– Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
– Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. Ure.
– Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
– Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and S. viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
– Bottle tit (Zoöl.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
– Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
– Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tubve), used in feeding infants.
Bot"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottled p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling.]
Definition: To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
Bot"tle, n. Etym: [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.]
Definition: A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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