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.
TRIAD
trio, threesome, triad, trinity
(noun) three people considered as a unit
trio, triad, triplet, triple
(noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit
three, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
triad (plural triads)
A grouping of three.
Synonyms: threesome, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, triumvirate, Thesaurus:trio
A word of three syllables.
Synonym: trisyllable
A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
Coordinate terms
• (group of three): monad · duad, dyad · triad · tetrad · pentad · hexad · heptad · octad · ennead, nonad · decad, decade · hendecad · dodecad, duodecade
• (word of four syllables): quaternion
Anagrams
• drait, iTard
Source: Wiktionary
Tri"ad, n. Etym: [L.trias, -adis, Gr. triade. See Three, and cf. Trias, Trio.]
1. A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
2. (Mus.) (a) A chord of three notes. (b) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
3. (Chem.)
Definition: An element or radical whose valence is three. Triads of the Welsh bards, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together.
– Hindoo triad. See Trimurti.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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