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.
DEBOUCH
debouch
(verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; “The tributary debouched into the big river”
debouch, march out
(verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground; “The regiments debouched from the valley”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
debouch (plural debouches)
(geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
(military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
Verb
debouch (third-person singular simple present debouches, present participle debouching, simple past and past participle debouched)
(intransitive) To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
Anagrams
• bouched
Source: Wiktionary
De*bouch", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Debouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.] Etym: [F. déboucher; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. Disembogue.]
Definition: To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. Battalions debouching on the plain. Prescott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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