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.
UNIAXIAL
Etymology
Adjective
uniaxial (not comparable)
Having a single axis; monoaxial
(botany) Having a single stem, with no branches, that terminates in a flower
Anagrams
• auxilian
Source: Wiktionary
U`ni*ax"i*al, a. Etym: [Uni + axial.]
1. (Crystallog.)
Definition: Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.
Note: In uniaxial crystals, the optic axis has the direction of the vertical crystallographic axis. All tetragonal and hexagonal crystals are uniaxial.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane;
– opposed to multiaxial.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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