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.
HYDROCEPHALOID
Etymology
Adjective
hydrocephaloid (comparative more hydrocephaloid, superlative most hydrocephaloid)
(medicine) Resembling hydrocephalus.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy`dro*ceph"a*loid, a. Etym: [Hydrocephalus + -oid.] (Med.)
Definition: Resembling hydrocephalus. Hydrocephaloid affection (Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
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