Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
CHOLIAMB
Etymology
Noun
choliamb (plural choliambs)
(poetry) A limping iamb.
Source: Wiktionary
Cho"li*amb, Cho`li*am"bic, n. Etym: [L. choliambus, Gr. (Pros.)
Definition: A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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