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.
MELISMATIC
Etymology
Adjective
melismatic (comparative more melismatic, superlative most melismatic)
(music) Of, relating to, or being a melisma; the style of singing several notes to one syllable of text.
Usage notes
An attribute of some Islamic and Gregorian chants, as well as of a singing style prevalent in popular music from the early 1990s to the late 2000s.
Coordinate terms
• syllabic
• neumatic
Source: Wiktionary
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