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.
MUNIFICENT
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
(adjective) very generous; “distributed gifts with a lavish hand”; “the critics were lavish in their praise”; “a munificent gift”; “his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent”; “prodigal praise”; “unsparing generosity”; “his unstinted devotion”; “called for unstinting aid to Britain”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
munificent (comparative more munificent, superlative most munificent)
(of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
(of a gift, donation, etc.) Very generous; lavish.
Synonyms
• bounteous, generous, liberal
Source: Wiktionary
Mu*nif"i*cent, a. Etym: [L. munificus; munus service, gift + -ficare (in comp.) to make. Cf. Immunity, -fy.]
Definition: Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor.
– Mu*nif"i*cent*ly, adv.
Syn.
– Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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