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.
ENSANGUINE
Etymology
Verb
ensanguine (third-person singular simple present ensanguines, present participle ensanguining, simple past and past participle ensanguined)
to stain with blood
Source: Wiktionary
En*san"guine, v. t.
Definition: To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUBDUCTION
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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