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.
CONFERVA
conferva
(noun) any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
conferva (plural confervas or confervae)
An unbranched slender green freshwater alga.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*fer"va, n.; pl. Confervæ. Etym: [L., a kind of water plant. See Comfrey.] (Bot.)
Definition: Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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APPROXIMATE
(adjective) not quite exact or correct; “the approximate time was 10 o’clock”; “a rough guess”; “a ballpark estimate”
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