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.
DECOLONIZE
decolonize, decolonise
(verb) grant independence to (a former colony); “West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960’s”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
decolonize (third-person singular simple present decolonizes, present participle decolonizing, simple past and past participle decolonized)
(transitive) To release from the status of colony; to allow a colony to become independent.
Source: Wiktionary
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
17 July 2024
COELACANTH
(noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
Coffee Trivia
