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.
DRYAS
Dryas, genus Dryas
(noun) mountain avens
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
Dryas (uncountable)
(geology) Either of two climatic stages of the late glacial period in Northern Europe in which plants of the genus Dryas were abundant
Anagrams
• Drays, Dyars, Radys, drays, yards
Etymology
Noun
dryas (plural dryases)
Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens.
One of two periods of cold and increased glaciation thousands of years before the present (Younger Dryas and Older Dryas).
Anagrams
• Drays, Dyars, Radys, drays, yards
Source: Wiktionary
Dry"as, n.; pl. Dryades. Etym: [L. See Dryad.] (Class. Myth.)
Definition: A dryad.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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