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.
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RUSTY
rust, rusty, rust-brown
(adjective) of the brown color of rust
hoary, rusty
(adjective) ancient; “hoary jokes”
rusty
(adjective) covered with or consisting of rust; “a rusty machine”; “rusty deposits”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
rustier
comparative form of rusty
Source: Wiktionary
RUSTY
Rust"y, a. Etym: [AS. rustig.] [Compar. Rustier (; superl. Rustiest.]
1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. [Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. Shak.
3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." Piers Plowman.
5. Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." Spenser.
6. Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.
7. (Bot.)
Definition: Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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