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.
RIMOSE
rimose
(adjective) having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices; “a tree with rimose bark”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rimose
Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.
Anagrams
• Mosier, isomer, moires, moirĂ©s
Source: Wiktionary
Ri*mose", a. Etym: [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.]
1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
2. (Nat. Hist.)
Definition: Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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