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.
QUINCUNCIAL
Etymology
Adjective
quincuncial (comparative more quincuncial, superlative most quincuncial)
Arranged in a quincunx.
(botany) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.
Source: Wiktionary
Quin*cun"cial, Etym: [L. quincuncialis, from quincunx. See Quincunx.]
1. Having the form of a quincunx.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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