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.
ENCUMBERED
encumbered
(adjective) loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; “a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels”- A.J.Liebling; “a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack”; “an encumbered estate”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
encumbered (comparative more encumbered, superlative most encumbered)
Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
Antonyms
• unencumbered
Verb
encumbered
simple past tense and past participle of encumber
Source: Wiktionary
ENCUMBER
En*cum"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Encumbering.] Etym: [F. encombrer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. combrer to hinder. See Cumber, and cf. Incumber.] [Written also incumber.]
1. To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning. Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. Hooker.
2. To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
Syn.
– To load; clog; oppress; overload; embarrass; perplex; hinder; retard; obstruct; check; block.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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