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.
OUST
oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel
(verb) remove from a position or office; “The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds”
oust
(verb) remove and replace; “The word processor has ousted the typewriter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
oust (third-person singular simple present ousts, present participle ousting, simple past and past participle ousted)
(transitive) To expel; to remove.
Synonyms
• banish, dismiss, eject, exclude; see also kick out
Antonyms
• accept, harbor, shelter
Anagrams
• Otsu, SOTU, Tsou, otsu, outs, sout, tOSU
Source: Wiktionary
Oust, n.
Definition: See Oast.
Oust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ousted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ousting.] Etym: [OF. oster, F. Ă´ter, prob. fr. L. obstare to oppose, hence, to forbid, take away. See Obstacle, and cf. Ouster.]
1. To take away; to remove. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. Sir M. Hale.
2. To eject; to turn out. Blackstone. From mine own earldom foully ousted me. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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