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.
HOARIEST
HOARY
canescent, hoary
(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down
hoary, rusty
(adjective) ancient; “hoary jokes”
grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; “whose beard with age is hoar”-Coleridge; “nodded his hoary head”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
hoariest
superlative form of hoary: most hoary
Source: Wiktionary
HOARY
Hoar"y, a.
1. White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.)
Definition: Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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