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.
TRIPLEX
ternary, treble, triple, triplex
(adjective) having three units or components or elements; “a ternary operation”; “a treble row of red beads”; “overcrowding made triple sessions necessary”; “triple time has three beats per measure”; “triplex windows”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
triplex (not comparable)
Having three parts; triple or threefold.
(architecture) Having three floors or other divisions.
Noun
triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)
A building with three apartments or divisions
(juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
(music, uncountable) Triple time.
Verb
triplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)
(transitive) To make triplex.
Etymology
Proper noun
Triplex
(British) a safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica).
Source: Wiktionary
Tri"plex, a. (Mach.)
Definition: Havingthree principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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