Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
CENTILE
percentile, centile
(noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
centile (plural centiles)
Short for percentile.
Hypernyms
• quantile
Coordinate terms
• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)
Source: Wiktionary
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