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.
AMMONITE
ammonite, ammonoid
(noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
ammonite (plural ammonites)
Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
Synonyms: ammonid, ammonoid
Etymology 2
Noun
ammonite (uncountable)
An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.
Etymology
Noun
Ammonite (plural Ammonites)
A native or inhabitant of Ammon.
Adjective
Ammonite (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to the Ammonites.
Synonym: Ammonitish
Proper noun
Ammonite
The extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people who used to live in modern-day northwest Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. Extinct since 5th century BCE.
Source: Wiktionary
Am"mon*ite, n. Etym: [L. cornu Ammonis born of Ammon; L. Ammon, Gr. Amun.] (Paleon.)
Definition: A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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