Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
EGLANTINES
Noun
eglantines
plural of eglantine
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Source: Wiktionary
EGLANTINE
Eg"lan*tine, n. Etym: [F. Ă©glantine, fr. OF. aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet.] (Bot.) (a) A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors. (b) The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa).
Note: Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twinning plant, perhaps the honeysuckle. Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine. L'Allegro, 47. "In our early writers and in Gerarde and the herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers." Dr. Prior.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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