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.
ACROGEN
acrogen
(noun) any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
acrogen (plural acrogens)
(biology) any flowerless plant whose growth takes place at the tip of the main stem, especially the cryptogam ferns
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• cornage
Source: Wiktionary
Ac"ro*gen, n. Etym: [Gr. -gen.] (Bot.)
Definition: A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) not quite exact or correct; “the approximate time was 10 o’clock”; “a rough guess”; “a ballpark estimate”
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