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.
TURACIN
Etymology
Noun
turacin (countable and uncountable, plural turacins)
(organic compound) A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou.
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Source: Wiktionary
Tu"ra*cin, n. (Physiol.) (Chem.)
Definition: A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
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