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.
EXCRETE
excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
(verb) eliminate from the body; “Pass a kidney stone”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
excrete (third-person singular simple present excretes, present participle excreting, simple past and past participle excreted)
(biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
Synonyms
• See urinate and defecate
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*crete", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excreting.] Etym: [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See Crisis.]
Definition: To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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