Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
SUBSTRUCT
Etymology
Verb
substruct (third-person singular simple present substructs, present participle substructing, simple past and past participle substructed)
To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*struct", v. t. Etym: [See Substruction.]
Definition: To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation. [R.] He substructs the religion of Asia as the base. Emerson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBSERVE
(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
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