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.
TRISOCTAHEDRON
Etymology
Noun
trisoctahedron (plural trisoctahedrons or trisoctahedra)
(crystallography) A solid of the isometric system bounded by 24 equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
Source: Wiktionary
Tris*oc`ta*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. octahedron.] (Crystallog.)
Definition: A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron.
– Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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