Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
GEOPHYTE
geophyte
(noun) a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
geophyte (plural geophytes)
(botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.
Source: Wiktionary
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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