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.
LAVENDER
lavender, lilac, lilac-colored
(adjective) of a pale purple color
lavender
(noun) a pale purple color
lavender
(noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)
Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
Hyponyms
• (plant): common lavender
Adjective
lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)
Having a pale purple colour.
(politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights
(politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
Verb
lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)
(transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.
Anagrams
• Vreeland
Proper noun
Lavender (plural Lavenders)
A surname.
A female given name from English.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lavender is the 4583rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7744 individuals. Lavender is most common among White (69.86%) and Black/African American (23.81%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Vreeland
Source: Wiktionary
Lav"en*der, n. Etym: [OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It. lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf. Lavender.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress.
– Lavender water, a perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris.
– Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary.
– To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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