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.
PENNON
pennon, pinion
(noun) wing of a bird
pennant, pennon, streamer, waft
(noun) a long flag; often tapering
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pennon (plural pennons)
A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
(nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.
Synonym: pennant
(literary, obsolete) A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing.
Synonym: pinion
Source: Wiktionary
Pen"non, n. Etym: [Cf. Pinion.]
Definition: A wing; a pinion. Milton.
Pen"non, n. Etym: [See Pennant.]
Definition: A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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