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.
STROBILES
Noun
strobiles
plural of strobile
Source: Wiktionary
STROBILE
Strob"ile, n. Etym: [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. strobole.] [Written also strobil.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Same as Strobila.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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