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.
SUPPLETIVE
Adjective
suppletive (comparative more suppletive, superlative most suppletive)
(grammar) Which supplies an etymologically unrelated word with forms, or which is used as one of its forms, by suppletion (for example, in English, better and best are suppletive forms of good).
Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; suppletory.
Noun
suppletive (plural suppletives)
(grammar) A form used by way of suppletion.
Source: Wiktionary
Sup"ple*tive, Sup"ple*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. supplétif, LL. suppletivus, from L. supplere, suppletum, to fill up. See Supply.]
Definition: Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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