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.
ATONIC
atonic, unaccented
(adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress; “an atonic syllable carries no stress”
atonic
(adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
atonic (comparative more atonic, superlative most atonic)
(of a sound or syllable) unstressed
(linguistics) not having tone (pitch)
(pathology) Lacking muscle tone.
(medicine) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy.
Anagrams
• Catino, actino-, action, cation, cation-Ď€
Source: Wiktionary
A*ton"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. atonique. See Atony.]
1. (Med.)
Definition: Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.
3. Destitute of tone vocality; surd. Rush.
A*ton"ic, n.
1. (Gram.)
Definition: A word that has no accent.
2. An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing. Rush.
3. (Med.)
Definition: A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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