tickseeds
plural of tickseed
• seed ticks, stickseed
Source: Wiktionary
Tick"seed`, n. Etym: [Tick the insect + seed; cf. G. wanzensamen, literally, bug seed.]
1. A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.
2. (Bot.) (a) Same as Coreopsis. (b) Any plant of the genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot family.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 March 2025
(adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); “hydraulic erosion”; “hydraulic brakes”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
