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.
LACEBARK
lacebark, ribbonwood, houhere, Hoheria populnea
(noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lacebark (plural lacebarks)
Any of various New Zealand plants in the genus Hoheria.
Anagrams
• rackable
Source: Wiktionary
Lace"-bark`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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