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.
ALLOGAMY
allogamy
(noun) cross-fertilization in plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
allogamy (uncountable)
(biology) The fertilization of an ovum from one individual with the spermatozoa of another; cross-fertilization
Source: Wiktionary
Al*log"a*my n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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