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.
TYLOSIS
Noun
tylosis (plural tyloses)
a thickening of the skin, especially of the eyelids
a balloonlike growth in a plant cavity; a tylose
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Source: Wiktionary
Ty*lo"sis, n.; pl. Tyloses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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