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.
SARCOPHAGUS
sarcophagus
(noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses)
A stonen coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
(informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
(historical) A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
(historical) An 18th-century form of wine cooler.
Source: Wiktionary
Sar*coph"a*gus, n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi, E. Sarcophaguses. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Sarcasm.]
1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.
2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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