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.
RHEUM
Rheum, genus Rheum
(noun) rhubarb
rheum
(noun) a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rheum (countable and uncountable, plural rheums)
(uncountable) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. [from 14th c.]
Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. [from 14th c.]
(poetic) Tears. [from 16th c.]
Hyponyms
• (dried rheum around eyes): crusty (slang), gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)
Source: Wiktionary
Rhe"um, n. Etym: [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of which it grows. See Rhubarb.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Rheum, n. Etym: [OF. reume, rheume, F. rhume a cold,, L. rheuma rheum, from Gr. stream. See Stream, n., and cf. Hemorrhoids.] (Med.)
Definition: A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose. I have a rheum in mine eyes too. Shak. Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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