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.
ESTUARIES
Noun
estuaries
plural of estuary
Source: Wiktionary
ESTUARY
Es"tu*a*ry, n.; pl. Estuaries. Etym: [L. aestuarium, from aestuare to surge. See Estuate.] [Written also æstuary.]
1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.
2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.
Es"tu*a*ry, a.
Definition: Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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