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.
PURULENCE
pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering
(noun) a fluid product of inflammation
purulence, purulency
(noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
purulence (countable and uncountable, plural purulences)
The condition of containing or discharging pus.
Pus.
Source: Wiktionary
Pu"ru*lence, Pu"ru*len*cy, n. Etym: [L. purulentia: cf. F. purulence.] (Med.)
Definition: The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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