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.
THUJA
Thuja, genus Thuja
(noun) red cedar
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
thuja (plural thujas)
A tree of the genus Thuja.
Hypernyms
• arborvitae, cypress
Source: Wiktionary
Thu"ja, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also thuya.] See Thyine wood.
Note: Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitæ of the Eastern and Northern United States. T. gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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