Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
WAMPEE
pickerelweed, pickerel weed, wampee, Pontederia cordata
(noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
wampee (plural wampees)
A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
The fruit of this tree.
Source: Wiktionary
Wam*pee", n. (Bot.) (a) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. (b) The pickerel weed. [Southern U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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