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.
BACTEROID
bacteroidal, bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid
(adjective) resembling bacteria
bacteroid
(noun) a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bacteroid (plural bacteroids)
(dated) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
A bacterium of the species Bacteroides.
A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces.
Adjective
bacteroid (comparative more bacteroid, superlative most bacteroid)
(biology) Resembling bacteria.
bacteroid particles
Source: Wiktionary
Bac"te*roid, Bac`te*roid"al, a. Etym: [Bacterium + -oid.] (Biol.)
Definition: Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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