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.
DIEBACK
dieback
(noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
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Etymology
Noun
dieback (plural diebacks)
(phytopathology) The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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