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.
MOLT
molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis
(noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough
(verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; “our dog sheds every Spring”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
molt (third-person singular simple present molts, present participle molting, simple past and past participle molted)
United States standard spelling of moult.
Noun
molt (plural molts)
United States standard spelling of moult.
Etymology 2
Verb
molt
(rare) simple past tense of melt
Anagrams
• LMTO
Source: Wiktionary
Molt, obs.imp.
Definition: of Melt. Chaucer. Spenser.
Molt, Moult, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molted or Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.] Etym: [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See Mew to molt, and cf. Mute, v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling molt.]
Definition: To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.
Molt, Moult, v. t.
Definition: To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
Molt, Moult, n.
Definition: The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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