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.
FORERUNNER
harbinger, forerunner, predecessor, herald, precursor
(noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
precursor, forerunner
(noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
antecedent, forerunner
(noun) anything that precedes something similar in time; “phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
forerunner (plural forerunners)
A runner at the front or ahead.
(sport) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
(philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
Source: Wiktionary
Fore*run"ner, n.
1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.
2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] Shak.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GUILLOTINE
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