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.
HORNBUG
Etymology
Noun
hornbug (plural hornbugs)
A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus, with long, curved upper jaws resembling a sickle, and whose grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
Source: Wiktionary
Horn"bug`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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