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.
SEGMENTAL
metameric, segmental, segmented
(adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters
segmental
(adjective) divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
segmental (comparative more segmental, superlative most segmental)
of, relating to, or constructed from segments
Source: Wiktionary
Seg*men"tal, a.
1. Relating to, or being, a segment.
2. (Anat. & Zoöl.) (a) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. (b) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct.
РSegmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zo̦l.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea.
– Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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