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.
HUNTER
hunter, hunting watch
(noun) a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
Orion, Hunter
(noun) a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel
hunter, huntsman
(noun) someone who hunts game
hunter
(noun) a person who searches for something; “a treasure hunter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Hunter
An English and Scottish occupational surname for a hunter.
A male or female given name from surnames.
A river in New South Wales, Australia; flowing 300 km from the Mount Royal Range within Barrington Tops National Park into the Tasman Sea at Newcastle; named for John Hunter, 2nd Governor of New South Wales.
A river in Western Australia, Australia; flowing 16 km from Donkins Hill near Mitchell River National Park into the Timor Sea; named by Australian explorer Philip Parker King for James Hunter, the surgeon of King's HMS Mermaid.
A river in northwest Otago, New Zealand; flowing into Lake Hāwea.
A river in Prince Edward Island, Canada; flowing from near Hartville into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near North Rustico.
A locale in United States.
A city in Kansas; named for early settler Al Hunter.
A city in South Dakota; named for local landowner John Hunter.
A town in Arkansas.
A town in New York and a village within that town.
A town in Oklahoma.
A town in Wisconsin.
A census-designated place in Warren County, Ohio.
A census-designated place in Missouri; named for early landowner John Hunter.
A census-designated place in Tennessee.
An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio; named for Ohio congressman W. F. Hunter.
A ghost town in Nevada.
Etymology
Noun
hunter
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
A dog used in hunting.
A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
One who hunts or seeks after anything.
(psychology) A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.
Coordinate term: howler
A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
A pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.
Hyponyms
• fortune hunter
• headhunter
• white hunter
Source: Wiktionary
Hunt"er, n.
1. One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
2. A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak.
3. A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon.
– Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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