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.
SNAKEWEED
rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae
(noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
snakeweed (usually uncountable, plural snakeweeds)
Any of various unrelated plants reputed to cure snakebite.
A poisonous American plant of the genus Gutierrezia.
Synonyms
• (Gutierrezia): matchweed
Source: Wiktionary
Snake"weed`, n. (Bot.) (a) A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta). (b) The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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