Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
POLYGENY
Etymology
Noun
polygeny (countable and uncountable, plural polygenies)
Polygenesis.
The control of a single trait, or phenotype, by multiple genes.
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• polygyne
Source: Wiktionary
Pol`y*gen"e*sis, Po*lyg"e*ny, n. Etym: [Poly- + genesis, or root of Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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