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.
POLYP
polyp
(noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth; “in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase”
polyp, polypus
(noun) a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
polyp (plural polyps)
(medicine) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane
(zoology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles
Anagrams
• loppy
Source: Wiktionary
Pol"yp, n. Etym: [L. polypus, Gr. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl.
Definition: Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid. [Written also polype.] Fresh-water polyp, the hydra.
– Polyp stem (Zoöl.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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