Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
monocarpic
(adjective) dying after bearing fruit only once
Source: WordNet® 3.1
monocarpic (not comparable)
(botany) (of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying.
Source: Wiktionary
Mon`o*car"pic, Mon`o*car"pous, a. Etym: [Mono- + Gr. monocarpe.] (Bot.)
Definition: Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
Note: Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.