Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
PROEMBRYO
Etymology
Noun
proembryo (plural proembryos)
(botany) A cluster of cells in the ovule of a fertilized flowering plant that has not yet formed into an embryo
(botany) The protonema of mosses
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*em"bry*o, n. Etym: [Pref. pro- + embryo. ] (Bot.) (a) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. (b) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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