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.
OOSPORE
oospore
(noun) a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
oospore (plural oospores)
(biology) A fertilized female zygote, having thick chitinous walls, that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
Source: Wiktionary
O"ö*spore, n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.) (a) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oösphere by antherozoids. (b) A fertilized oösphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNSEASONED
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
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