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.
WHOOPS
Etymology 1
Interjection
whoops
Oops.
Etymology 2
Noun
whoops
plural of whoop
Verb
whoops
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whoop
Source: Wiktionary
WHOOP
Whoop (, n. Etym: [See Hoopoe.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The hoopoe.
Whoop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping.] Etym: [OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i.]
1. To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl. Each whooping with a merry shout. Wordsworth. When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. W. Browne.
2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Whoop, v. t.
Definition: To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome. Shak.
Whoop, n.
1. A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl. A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos. Addison. The whoop of the crane. Longfellow.
2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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