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.
CONEPATL
Etymology
Noun
conepatl (plural not attested)
(obsolete) A kind of skunk.
Usage notes
This word is only known from the work of Francisco Hernández.
Anagrams
• placento-
Source: Wiktionary
Co"ne*pate, Co"ne*patl, n. Etym: [Mexican conepatl and epatl.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The skunk.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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