Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
POLYPITE
Etymology
Noun
polypite (plural polypites)
(rare) A fossil polyp
(rare) An individual polyp of a colonial cnidarian
Source: Wiktionary
Pol"y*pite, n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian. (b) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.
2. (Paleon.)
Definition: A fossil coral.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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