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.
INNER
inner
(adjective) inside or closer to the inside of the body; “the inner ear”
inner
(adjective) located or occurring within or closer to a center; “an inner room”
inner, interior, internal
(adjective) located inward; “Beethoven’s manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle”- Leonard Bernstein; “she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it”- David Denby; “an internal sense of rightousness”- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
inner, internal, intimate
(adjective) innermost or essential; “the inner logic of Cubism”; “the internal contradictions of the theory”; “the intimate structure of matter”
inner
(adjective) exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; “inner regions of the organization”; “inner circles of government”
inside, inner, privileged
(adjective) confined to an exclusive group; “privy to inner knowledge”; “inside information”; “privileged information”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
inner (not generally comparable, superlative innermost)
Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
Synonyms
• interior
• internal
Antonyms
• outer
Noun
inner (plural inners)
An inner part.
(South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
(cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
(UK, politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.
(military, firearms) The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
Antonyms
• (One who supports remaining in the EU): outer
Anagrams
• niner, renin
Source: Wiktionary
In"ner, a. Etym: [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In.]
1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.
3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also,the place of their sittings.
– Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom.
– Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof,in a double-plated roof.
– Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms.
– Inner square (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THEORETICAL
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