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.
ECTOBLAST
ectoderm, exoderm, ectoblast
(noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ectoblast (plural ectoblasts)
(dated, biology) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm or epiblast.
Source: Wiktionary
Ec"to*blast, n. Etym: [Ecto- + Gr. (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. (b) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall. Agassiz.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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