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.
SPATTERING
spatter, spattering, splash, splashing, splattering
(noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering
(noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; “he heard a spatter of gunfire”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
spattering
present participle of spatter
Noun
spattering (plural spatterings)
Something spattered.
Anagrams
• patterings
Source: Wiktionary
SPATTER
Spat"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] Etym: [From the root of spit salvia.]
1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.
2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope.
3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
Spat"ter, v. i.
Definition: To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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