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.
STRAMINEOUS
Etymology
Adjective
stramineous (comparative more stramineous, superlative most stramineous)
Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
(botany) Straw-coloured.
Source: Wiktionary
Stra*min"e*ous, a. Etym: [L. stramineus, fr. stramen straw, fr. sternere, stratum, to spread out, to strew.]
1. Strawy; consisting of straw. Robinson.
2. Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored. Burton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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