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.
CAVING
Noun
caving (countable and uncountable, plural cavings)
The recreational sport of exploring caves.
An act of collapsing or caving in.
Verb
caving
present participle of cave
Source: Wiktionary
CAVE
Cave, n. Etym: [F. cave, L. cavus hollow, whence cavea cavity. Cf. Cage.]
1. A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
2. Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. [Obs.] "The cave of the ear." Bacon. Cave bear (Zoöl.), a very large fossil bear (Ursus spelæus) similar to the grizzly bear, but large; common in European caves.
– Cave dweller, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave. Tylor.
РCave hyena (Zo̦l.), a fossil hyena found abundanty in British caves, now usually regarded as a large variety of the living African spotted hyena.
РCave lion (Zo̦l.), a fossil lion found in the caves of Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African lion.
– Bone cave. See under Bone.
Cave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caved; p. pr. & vb. n. Caving.] Etym: [Cf. F. caver. See Cave, n.]
Definition: To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.] The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser.
Cave, v. i.
1. To dwell in a cave. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Etym: [See To cave in, below.]
Definition: To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. To cave in. Etym: [Flem. inkalven.] (a) To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [Slang] H. Kingsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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