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.
ADOLESCENCE
adolescence
(noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
adolescence
(noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
adolescence (countable and uncountable, plural adolescences)
The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.
Synonyms: teendom, teenhood
Source: Wiktionary
Ad`o*les"cence, n. Etym: [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.]
Definition: The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COVERT
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