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.
MINIVET
Etymology
Noun
minivet (plural minivets)
Any of about 13 species of passerine birds in the genus Pericrocotus of the cuckoo-shrike family of southern and eastern Asia.
Source: Wiktionary
Min"i*vet, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidæ.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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