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.
BATHYBIUS
Etymology
Noun
Bathybius (uncountable)
(zoology, obsolete) A gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and once supposed to be a free living protoplasm, later found to be the result of precipitation.
Source: Wiktionary
Ba*thyb"i*us, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. deep + life] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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