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.
EMBANK
embank
(verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection; “The river was embanked with a dyke”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
embank (third-person singular simple present embanks, present participle embanking, simple past and past participle embanked)
to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bank", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] Etym: [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.]
Definition: To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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