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.
ETHMOIDAL
Etymology
Adjective
ethmoidal (not comparable)
ethmoid
Anagrams
• methiodal, oldhamite
Source: Wiktionary
Eth"moid, Eth*moid"al, a. Etym: [Gr. ethmoïde, ethmoïdal.] (Anat.) (a) Like a sieve; cribriform. (b) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. Ethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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