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.
URTICACEOUS
Etymology
Adjective
urticaceous (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, Urticaceae, of which the nettle is the type.
Source: Wiktionary
Ur`ti*ca"ceous, a. (Bot.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticaceæ) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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