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.
PREROGATIVE
prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right
(noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); “suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
prerogative (plural prerogatives)
A hereditary or official right or privilege.
A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.
A right, especially when due to one's position or role.
A property, attribute or ability which gives one a superiority or advantage over others; an inherent advantage or privilege; a talent.
Adjective
prerogative (comparative more prerogative, superlative most prerogative)
Having a hereditary or official right or privilege.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*rog"a*tive, n. Etym: [F. prérogative, from L. praerogativa precedence in voting, preference, privilege, fr. praerogativus that is asked before others for his opinion, that votes before or first, fr. praerogare to ask before another; prae before + rogare to ask. See Rogation.]
1. An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise. The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination. I. Taylor. An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative. Macaulay.
2. Precedence; preëminence; first rank. [Obs.] Then give me leave to have prerogative. Shak.
Note: The term came into general use in the conflicts between the Crown and Parliaments of Great Britain, especially in the time of the Stuarts. Prerogative Court (Eng. Law), a court which formerly had authority in the matter of wills and administrations, where the deceased left bona notabilia, or effects of the value of five pounds, in two or more different dioceses. Blackstone.
– Prerogative office, the office in which wills proved in the Prerogative Court were registered.
Syn.
– Privilege; right. See Privilege.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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