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.
BARNACLED
Etymology
Adjective
barnacled (comparative more barnacled, superlative most barnacled)
Crusted with barnacles.
(figurative, by extension) Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring.
Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean.
(figuratively) Marked by personal experiences; worldly.
(figuratively) Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation.
Verb
barnacled
simple past tense and past participle of barnacle
Source: Wiktionary
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DESIRABLE
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
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