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.
OPACOUS
Etymology
Adjective
opacous (not comparable)
(obsolete, chiefly, poetic) Not shining or illuminated; dark. [17th-20th c.]
(obsolete) Not allowing the passage of light; opaque. [17th-19th c.]
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.
Source: Wiktionary
O*pa"cous, a. Etym: [L. opacus. See Opaque.]
Definition: Opaque. [R.] Milton.
– O*pa"cous*ness, n. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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