Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
PLACATIVE
placating, appeasing(a), placative, placatory
(adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; “the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich”; “placating (or placative) gestures”; “an astonishingly placatory speech”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
placative (comparative more placative, superlative most placative)
(chiefly US) That placates; pacifying.
Synonyms
• placatory
Source: Wiktionary
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ONCHOCERCIASIS
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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