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.
ALTRICIAL
altricial
(adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From modern Latin Altrices (a former division of birds), plural of altrix, the feminine of altor ‘nourisher’, from alere ‘nourish’.
Adjective
altricial (comparative more altricial, superlative most altricial)
(zoology) Helpless at birth (of young animals); or having young which are helpless at birth.
Synonyms
• nidicolous
Noun
altricial (plural altricials)
Such an animal
Source: Wiktionary
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