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.
fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident
(adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
sibilant, sibilant consonant
(noun) a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sibilant (comparative more sibilant, superlative most sibilant)
Characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash or surge.
sibilant (plural sibilants)
(phonetics) A consonant having a hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'.
Synonym: groove fricative
Hypernym: fricative
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Source: Wiktionary
Sib"i*lant, a. Etym: [L. sibilans, -antis, p. pr. of sibilare to hiss: cf. F. sibilant.]
Definition: Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
– n.
Definition: A sibiliant letter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
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.