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.
SWEETWOOD
Etymology
Noun
sweetwood (countable and uncountable, plural sweetwoods)
The true laurel (Laurus nobilis).
The timber of the Jamaican tree Oreodaphne leucoxylon, or of various related trees.
Source: Wiktionary
Sweet"wood`, n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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