Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
TABETIC
Adjective
tabetic (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to tabes.
Noun
tabetic (plural tabetics)
(medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has tabes.
(medicine, psychiatry, dated) (often, more specifically) A person who has syphilitic tabes dorsalis; a person with advanced syphilis including neurosyphilis.
Source: Wiktionary
Ta*bet"ic, a. (Med.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. -- n.
Definition: One affected with tabes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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