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.
SPINAGES
Noun
spinages
plural of spinage
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• pingases
Source: Wiktionary
SPINAGE
Spin"ach, Spin"age, n. Etym: [OF. espinache, espinoche, F. Ă©pinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isfanaj, isfinaj, aspanakh, probably of Persian origin.] (Bot.)
Definition: A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache.
– New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.
Note: Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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