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.
ELATER
Etymology 1
Noun
elater (plural elaters)
That which elates.
Etymology 2
Noun
elater (plural elaters)
(obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
(botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
(botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
(zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
Anagrams
• Aertel, Tralee, alreet, e-alert, earlet, relate, telera
Source: Wiktionary
E*lat"er, n.
Definition: One who, or that which, elates.
El"a*ter, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
1. (Bot.)
Definition: An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any beetle of the family Elateridæ, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
El"a*ter, n. (Chem.)
Definition: The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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