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.
MECONINS
MECONIN
Mec"o*nin, n. Etym: [Cf. F. méconine.] (Chem.)
Definition: A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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