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.
BRACHIATE
brachiate
(adjective) having arms or armlike appendages
brachiate
(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches; “maples are brachiate”
brachiate
(verb) swing from one hold to the next; “the monkeys brachiate”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
brachiate (comparative more brachiate, superlative most brachiate)
Having decussate branches.
Etymology 2
Verb
brachiate (third-person singular simple present brachiates, present participle brachiating, simple past and past participle brachiated)
(intransitive) To move like a brachiator; to swing from branch to branch, advance by brachiation.
[…] brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle.
Source: Wiktionary
Brach"i*ate, a. Etym: [L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.] (Bot.)
Definition: Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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