Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
LEUCOPLAST
Etymology
Noun
leucoplast (plural leucoplasts)
(biology) An organelle found in certain plant cells, a non-pigmented category of plastid with various biosynthetic functions.
Source: Wiktionary
Leu"co*plast, Leu`co*plas"tid, n. Etym: [Leuco- + Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUCH
(adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; “such weeping”; “so much weeping”; “such a help”; “such grief”; “never dreamed of such beauty”
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