dysodile (usually uncountable, plural dysodiles)
(mineral) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly foetid odour when burning.
Source: Wiktionary
Dys"o*dile, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)
Definition: An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
