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.
COCCOLITH
Etymology 1
Noun
coccolith (plural coccoliths)
(biology) A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized
Etymology 2
Noun
coccolith (plural coccoliths)
(mineral) Alternative form of coccolite (“diopside”)
Source: Wiktionary
Coc"co*lith, n. Etym: [Gr. -lith.] (Biol.)
Definition: One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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