An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ACROCARPOUS
acrocarpous
(adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
acrocarpous (comparative more acrocarpous, superlative most acrocarpous)
(botany) Developing the archegonium on the summit of the primary stem; fruiting at tips, in the manner of mosses.
Source: Wiktionary
Ac`ro*car"pous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.) (a) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk. (b) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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