ANTHESIS

blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence

(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

anthesis (plural antheses)

(botany) The event of a flower opening.

Anagrams

• Nashitse, Sethians, Thainess, shanties

Source: Wiktionary


An*the"sis, n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)

Definition: The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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26 November 2024

TRANSPOSITION

(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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