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.
PARTURIFACIENT
Etymology
Noun
parturifacient (plural parturifacients)
(medicine) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth.
Source: Wiktionary
Par*tu`ri*fa"cient, n. Etym: [L. parturire to desire to bring forth + facere to make.] (Med.)
Definition: A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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