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.
MONAD
monad
(noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
monad, monas
(noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive
monad
(noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one
MONAS
monad, monas
(noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
monad (plural monads)
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
(botany) A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
(mathematics, computing) A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
Coordinate term: comonad
Coordinate terms
• monad · duad, dyad · triad · tetrad · pentad · hexad · heptad · octad · ennead, nonad · decad, decade · hendecad · dodecad, duodecade
Anagrams
• Damon, Doman, Domna, Mando, NoMad, mad on, mad-on, mando, nomad
Source: Wiktionary
Mon"ad, n. Etym: [L. monas, -adis, a unit, Gr.
1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
2. (Philos. of Leibnitz)
Definition: The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.
4. (Biol.)
Definition: A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.
5. (Chem.)
Definition: An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen. Monad deme (Biol.), in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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