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.
HOMOIOTHERMAL
Etymology
Adjective
homoiothermal (not comparable)
(biology) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; applied to warm-blooded animals.
Source: Wiktionary
Ho*moi`o*ther"mal, a. Etym: [Gr. thermal.] (Physiol.)
Definition: Maintaining a uniform temperature; hæmatothermal; homothermic;
– applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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