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.
COOEE
Etymology
Noun
cooee (plural cooees)
(Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
(Australia, informal, with "within", also figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance.
Verb
cooee (third-person singular simple present cooees, present participle cooeeing, simple past and past participle cooeed)
(intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.
Interjection
cooee
(informal, chiefly, Australia, UK) Used to attract someone's attention.
Synonyms
• ahoy! (nautical), hey!, oi! (impolite), yoohoo!; see also hey
Source: Wiktionary
Coo"ey, Coo"ee, n. Etym: [Of imitative origin.]
Definition: A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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