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.
TERGUM
Etymology
Noun
tergum (plural terga)
(entomology) The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod.
Source: Wiktionary
Ter"gum, n.; pl. Terga. Etym: [L., the back.] (Zoöl.) (a) The back of an animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. (c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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