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.
THUNDERSTRIKE
Etymology
Verb
thunderstrike (third-person singular simple present thunderstrikes, present participle thunderstriking, simple past thunderstruck, past participle thunderstricken)
(transitive, now, rare) To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.
(transitive, figurative, now, rare) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.
Source: Wiktionary
Thun"der*strike`, v. t. [imp. Thunderstruck; p. p. Thunderstruck, - strucken (; p. pr. & vb. n. Thunderstriking.]
1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.
2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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