Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
sciatica
(noun) neuralgia along the sciatic nerve
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sciatica (countable and uncountable, plural sciaticas)
(pathology, neurology) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh.
Source: Wiktionary
Sci*at"i*ca, n. Etym: [NL.] (Med.)
Definition: Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thing, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoininhg. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.