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.
HELICOIDS
Noun
helicoids
plural of helicoid
Source: Wiktionary
HELICOID
Hel"i*coid, a. Etym: [Gr. hélicoïde. See Helix.]
1. Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidæ, or Snail family. Helicoid parabola (Math.), the parabolic spiral.
Hel"i*coid, n. (Geom.)
Definition: A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
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