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.
RECIPROCATING
Verb
reciprocating
present participle of reciprocate
Adjective
reciprocating (not comparable)
That moves backwards and forwards.
Source: Wiktionary
RECIPROCATE
Re*cip"ro*cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reciprocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Reciprocating.] Etym: [L. reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See Reciprocal.]
Definition: To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path.
– Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.
Re*cip"ro*cate, v. t.
Definition: To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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