BANTING

banteng, banting, tsine, Bos banteng

(noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago

Banting, F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting

(noun) Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Banting

A surname.

Etymology

Noun

banting (uncountable)

(British, informal, dated) A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods.

Source: Wiktionary



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3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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