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.
TOADFLAX
toadflax, butter-and-eggs, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris
(noun) common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
toadflax (countable and uncountable, plural toadflaxes)
Any of several European plants, of the genus Linaria, having two-lipped yellow flowers.
Any of several other plants in the family Plantaginaceae.
Hyponyms
• (Linaria): yellow toadflax
Source: Wiktionary
Toad"flax`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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