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.
PULSATE
pulse, pulsate
(verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; “pulse waves”; “a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube”
pulsate, throb, pulse
(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; “The baby’s heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it”
pulsate, beat, quiver
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; “the city pulsated with music and excitement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
pulsate (third-person singular simple present pulsates, present participle pulsating, simple past and past participle pulsated)
To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
Anagrams
• puteals, septula, spatule, upsteal
Source: Wiktionary
Pul"sate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pulsated; p. pr. & vb. n. Pulsating.] Etym: [L. pulsatus, p. p. of pulsare to beat, strike, v. intens. fr. pellere to beat, strike, drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pulse, v.]
Definition: To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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AMATORY
(adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; “her amatory affairs”; “amorous glances”; “a romantic adventure”; “a romantic moonlight ride”
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