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.
AUTOGAMY
autogamy
(noun) self-fertilization in plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
autogamy (uncountable)
Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
Source: Wiktionary
Au*tog"a*my, n. Etym: [Auto- + Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RESURGE
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