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.
FLATTENS
Verb
flattens
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flatten
Source: Wiktionary
FLATTEN
Flat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] Etym: [From Flat, a.]
1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4. (Mus.)
Definition: To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel.
– Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.
Flat"ten, v. i.
Definition: To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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