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.
INSCRIBING
Verb
inscribing
present participle of inscribe
Source: Wiktionary
INSCRIBE
In*scribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inscribing.] Etym: [L. inscribere. See 1st In-, and Scribe.]
1. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.
2. To mark with letters, charakters, or words. O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. Pope.
3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. Dryden.
4. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
5. (Geom.)
Definition: To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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