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.
DIASTASES
DIASTASIS
diastasis
(noun) separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
diastases
plural of diastase
Source: Wiktionary
DIASTASE
Di"a*stase, n. Etym: [Gr. diastase. Cf. Diastasis.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Note: The name is more particularly applied to that ferment formed during the germination of grain, as in the malting of barley; but it is also occasionally used to designate the amylolytic ferment contained in animal fluids, as in the saliva.
DIASTASIS
Di*as"ta*sis, n. Etym: [NL. See Diastase.] (Surg.)
Definition: A forcible of bones without fracture.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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