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.
PLEIADES
Pleiades
(noun) a star cluster in the constellation Taurus
Pleiades
(noun) (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Pleiades p
(Greek god) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
(astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.
Synonyms
• Seven Sisters
Source: Wiktionary
Ple"ia*des, n. pl. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (
1. (Myth.)
Definition: The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
2. (Astron.)
Definition: A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. Job xxxviii. 31.
Note: Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was considered by Mädler the central point around which our universe is revolving, but there is no sufficient evidence of such motion. Only six pleiads are distinctly visible to the naked eye, whence the ancients supposed that a sister had concealed herself out of shame for having loved a mortal, Sisyphus.
PLEIAD
Ple"iad, n.
Definition: One of the Pleiades.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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