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.
LACERATING
Verb
lacerating
present participle of lacerate
Source: Wiktionary
LACERATE
Lac"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lacerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Lacerating ().] Etym: [L. laceratus, p. p. of lacerare to lacerate, fr. lacer mangled, lacerated; cf. Gr. slay.]
Definition: To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
Lac"er*ate, Lac"er*a`ted, p. a. Etym: [L. laceratus, p. p.]
1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
2. (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Definition: Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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