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.
ENTELLUS
entellus, hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus
(noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
entellus
A small Asian monkey (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus) having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face
Synonyms
• hanuman
Source: Wiktionary
En*tel"lus, n. Etym: [NL., the specific name, fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Definition: An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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