Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
HEMATEMESIS
hematemesis, haematemesis
(noun) vomiting blood
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hematemesis (countable and uncountable, plural hematemeses)
(American spelling, medicine) Blood within vomitus; the vomiting of blood.
Source: Wiktionary
Hem`a*tem"e*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + (Med.)
Definition: A vomiting of blood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
19 June 2025
ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
Coffee Trivia
