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.
YOLKS
Noun
yolks
plural of yolk
Source: Wiktionary
YOLK
Yolk, n. Etym: [OE. yolke, yelke, ýolke, ýelke, AS. geoloca, geoleca, fr. geolu yellow. See Yellow.] [Written also yelk.]
1. The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep. Yolk cord (Zoöl.), a slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.
– Yolk gland (Zoöl.), a special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Appendix.
– Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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