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.
BRAZILWOOD
brazilwood, peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata
(noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
brazilwood
(noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)
A Brazilian timber tree, Caesalpinia echinata, used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
(uncountable) The wood of such tree.
Synonyms
• (Caesalpina echinata): pau-brasil, pernambuco
Hypernyms
• (the tree): dyewood
• (the wood): dyewood
Source: Wiktionary
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