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.
CATENA
catena
(noun) a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
catena (plural catenas or catenae)
A series of related items.
(soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
Anagrams
• acetan
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*te"na, n.; pl. Catene. Etym: [L., a chain.]
Definition: A chain or series of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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