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.
OSSIFRAGE
Etymology
Noun
ossifrage (plural ossifrages)
(archaic) Gypaetus barbatus, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow.
(obsolete) The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle.
(British) The osprey.
Source: Wiktionary
Os"si*frage, n. Etym: [L. ossifraga, ossifragus, osprey, fr. ossifragus bone breaking; os, ossis, a bone + frangere, fractum, to break. See Osseous, Break, and cf. Osprey, Ossifragous.] (Zoöl.) (a) The lammergeir. (b) The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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