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.
PEPTIDE
peptide
(noun) amide combining the amino group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another; usually obtained by partial hydrolysis of protein
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
peptide (plural peptides)
(organic compound) Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.
(chemistry) The peptide bond itself.
Hyponyms
• See also peptide
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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