Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
INCUBOUS
Adjective
incubous (not comparable)
(botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.
Antonyms
• (of leaves): succubous
Source: Wiktionary
In"cu*bous, a. Etym: [From L. incubare to lie on.] (Bot.)
Definition: Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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