Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
EVECTIONS
Noun
evections
plural of evection
Source: Wiktionary
EVECTION
E*vec"tion. Etym: [L. evectio a going up, fr. evehere to carry out; e out + vehere to carry: cf. F évection.]
1. The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
2. (Astron.) (a) An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1º 20'. (b) The libration of the moon. Whewell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYCAMORE
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
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