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.
ADOXOGRAPHY
adoxography
(noun) fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects; “Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things”; “adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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ONCHOCERCIASIS
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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