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.
VELLICATE
pinch, vellicate
(verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; “smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth”; “the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back”
tickle, titillate, vellicate
(verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vellicate (third-person singular simple present vellicates, present participle vellicating, simple past and past participle vellicated)
To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
To pinch.
To cause to twitch.
Anagrams
• allective
Source: Wiktionary
Vel"li*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vellicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vellicating.] Etym: [L. vellicatus, p. p. of vellicare to twitch, fr. vellere to pluck, pull.]
Definition: To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively. Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous. Arbuthnot.
Vel"li*cate, v. i.
Definition: To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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