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.
FEEBLE
feeble, nerveless
(adjective) lacking strength; “a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude”- Nathaniel Hawthorne
decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly
(adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; “a feeble old woman”; “her body looked sapless”
faint, feeble
(adjective) lacking strength or vigor; “damning with faint praise”; “faint resistance”; “feeble efforts”; “a feeble voice”
feeble, lame
(adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; “a feeble excuse”; “a lame argument”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
feeble (comparative feebler, superlative feeblest)
Deficient in physical strength
Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
Synonyms
• (physically weak): weak, infirm, debilitated
• (wanting force, vigor or efficiency): faint
Verb
feeble (third-person singular simple present feebles, present participle feebling, simple past and past participle feebled)
(obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.
Anagrams
• beflee
Source: Wiktionary
Fee"ble, a. [Compar. Feebler; superl. Feeblest.] Etym: [OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible.]
1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15.
2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble voice." Shak.
Fee"ble, v. t.
Definition: To make feble; to enfeeble. [Obs.] Shall that victorious hand be feebled here Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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