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.
LEGISLATURE
legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers
(noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
legislature (plural legislatures)
A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
(Canada) The legislative assembly of a province or territory, as opposed to the federal parliament.
(Canada) A legislative building.
Source: Wiktionary
Leg"is*la`ture, n. Etym: [Cf. F. législature.]
Definition: The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body. Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale.
Note: The legislature of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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