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.
DWARVES
DWARF
dwarf
(noun) a plant or animal that is atypically small
gnome, dwarf
(noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
dwarf, midget, nanus
(noun) a person who is markedly small
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
dwarves
plural of dwarf
Anagrams
• swarved
Source: Wiktionary
DWARF
Dwarf, n.; pl Dwarfs. Etym: [OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.]
Definition: An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility.
Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf tree; dwarf honeysuckle. Dwarf elder (Bot.), danewort.
– Dwarf wall (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. Gwilt.
Dwarf, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dwarfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwarfing.]
Definition: To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.
Dwarf, v. i.
Definition: To become small; to diminish in size. Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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