Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ADIPOSIS
corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposis
(noun) the property of excessive fatness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
adiposis (countable and uncountable, plural adiposes)
(medical) A condition marked by the accumulation of adipose (fatty) tissue.
Synonyms
• (accumulation of fatty tissue): polysarcia
Source: Wiktionary
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SUPERFETATION
(noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; “superfetation is normal in some animal species”
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