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.
CIRRI
CIRRUS
cirrus
(noun) a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
cirrus, cirrus cloud
(noun) a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
cirrus, cirrhus
(noun) usually coiled
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
cirri
(botany) plural of cirrus Tendrils or claspers.
(zoology) plural of cirrus Grouped cilia that function as "legs" in certain species of protists.
Source: Wiktionary
Cir"ri, n. pl.
Definition: See Cirrus.
CIRRUS
Cir"rus, n.; pl. Cirri. Etym: [L., lock, curl, ringlet.] [Also written cirrhus.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A tendril or clasper.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri. (b) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.
Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
4. (Meteor.)
Definition: See under Cloud.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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