Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
NUCLEOSIDE
nucleoside
(noun) a glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
nucleoside (plural nucleosides)
(biochemistry) an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.
Meronyms
• nucleobase
Source: Wiktionary
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SUCH
(adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; “such weeping”; “so much weeping”; “such a help”; “such grief”; “never dreamed of such beauty”
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