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.
EXPLAINS
Verb
explains
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explain
Source: Wiktionary
EXPLAIN
Ex*plain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explained();p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.] Etym: [L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.]
1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.
2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope.
Syn.
– To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
Ex*plain", v. i.
Definition: To give an explanation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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