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.
MILKWOOD
Etymology
Noun
milkwood (plural milkwoods)
Any of a number of trees with milky sap
(South Africa) Sideroxylon inermis, the white milkwood
(South Africa) Mimusops zeyheri, the Transvaal red milkwood.
(South Asia, Australia) Alstonia scholaris, the scholar tree, and other species in the genus Alstonia.
Trimeris scaevolifolia, a tree endemic to the Atlantic island of St. Helena.
Many species of the genus Tabernaemontana that are native to the Americas.
Synonyms
• (Mimusops zeyheri): moepel (South Africa)
Source: Wiktionary
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