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.
SAXICAVOUS
Etymology
Adjective
saxicavous (not comparable)
(zoology) Boring or hollowing out rocks.
a saxicavous mollusk
Source: Wiktionary
Sax`i*ca"vous, a. Etym: [L. saxum rock + cavare to make hollow, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. saxicave.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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