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.
ORNATENESS
ornateness, elaborateness
(noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric
(noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; “the grandiosity of his prose”; “an excessive ornateness of language”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ornateness (countable and uncountable, plural ornatenesses)
The state of being ornate.
Source: Wiktionary
Or*nate"ness, n.
Definition: The quality of being ornate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SOUARI
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
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