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.
MOREPORK
Etymology
Noun
morepork (plural moreporks)
(chiefly, New Zealand) The Tasmanian spotted owl (Ninox novaeseelandiae), a small brown owl indigenous to New Zealand and Tasmania. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms: mopoke (Australia), ruru (New Zealand)
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, derogatory) Used as a mild term of abuse.
A foolish person; also, a person who is wearisome.
A person who is lazy or slow; a slowcoach, a slowpoke.
Synonym: Thesaurus:idler
Hypernyms
• (bird of the genus Ninox): boobook, boobook owl, hawk owl
Interjection
morepork
The call of a morepork.
Source: Wiktionary
More"pork`, n. Etym: [So named from its cry.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The Australian crested goatsucker (Ægotheles Novæ-Hollandiæ). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
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