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.
CYCLOPES
Cyclopes, genus Cyclopes
(noun) only the silky anteater
CYCLOPS
cyclops, water flea
(noun) minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
Cyclops
(noun) (Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
cyclopes
plural of cyclops
Source: Wiktionary
CYCLOPS
Cy"clops (s"klps), n. sing. & pl. Etym: [L. Cyclops, Gr.
1. (Gr. Myth.)
Definition: One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
Note: Pope, in his translation of the "Odyssey," uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
3. A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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