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.
RURAL
rural
(adjective) living in or characteristic of farming or country life; ārural peopleā; ālarge rural householdsā; āunpaved rural roadsā; āan economy that is basically ruralā
rural
(adjective) of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; ārural electrificationā; ārural free deliveryā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rural (comparative more rural, superlative most rural)
Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
Antonyms: urban, suburban
Synonyms
• campestral
• landly (nonstandard)
Noun
rural (plural rurals)
(obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.
Anagrams
• urlar
Source: Wiktionary
Ru"ral, a. Etym: [F., fr. L.ruralis, fr. rus, ruris, the country. Cf. Room space, Rustic.]
1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak.
2. Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy. Rural dean. (Eccl.) See under Dean.
– Rural deanery (Eccl.), the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.
Syn.
– Rustic.
– Rural, Rustic. Rural refers to the country itself; as, rural scenes, prospects, delights, etc. Rustic refers to the character, condition, taste, etc., of the original inhabitans of the country, who were generally uncultivated and rude; as, rustic manners; a rustic dress; a rustic bridge; rustic architecture, etc. We turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. Thomson. Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by; To manly confidence thy throughts apply. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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