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.
LINTED
Verb
linted
simple past tense and past participle of lint
Anagrams
• Tilden, Tindle, delint, dentil
Source: Wiktionary
LINT
Lint, n. Etym: [AS. linet flax, hemp, fr. lin flax; or, perh. borrowed fr. L. linteum a linen cloth, linen, from linteus linen, a., fr. lineum flax, lint. See Linen.]
1. Flax.
2. Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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WINEBERRY
(noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits
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