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.
TOUCAN
toucan
(noun) brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
toucan (plural toucans)
Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
Anagrams
• Tucano, co-aunt, uncoat
Source: Wiktionary
Tou"can, n. Etym: [F., fr. Pg. tucano; from Brazilian name. ]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
2. (Astronom.)
Definition: A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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