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.
orpine, orpin, livelong, live-forever, Sedum telephium
(noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
orpine (plural orpines)
Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium.
A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red.
• (succulent Sedum): livelong
• Perino, Pinero, norepi, opiner, pernio, pioner, porine, pornie, rip one, rope in
Source: Wiktionary
Or"pine, n. Etym: [F. orpin the genus of plants which includes orpine; -- so called from the yellow blossoms of a common species (Sedum acre). See Orpiment.] (Bot.)
Definition: A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. [Written also orpin.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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.