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.
TRIOSE
triose
(noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
triose (plural trioses)
(carbohydrate) A sugar or saccharide containing three carbon atoms. Trioses are the smallest monosaccharides. Dihydroxyacetone and L-/D-glyceraldehyde are the only trioses.
Hypernyms
• monosaccharide
Hyponyms
• ketotriose
dihydroxyacetone
• aldotriose
glyceraldehyde
Anagrams
• Sortie, Storie, Tories, restio, sortie, storie, tiroes, tories, œstri
Source: Wiktionary
Tri"ose, n. [Tri- + -ose.] (Chem.) (a) A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol. (b) A trisaccharide.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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