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.
BOXWOOD
box, boxwood
(noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees
boxwood, Turkish boxwood
(noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
boxwood (countable and uncountable, plural boxwoods)
(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
(uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
(countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.
Synonyms
• (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European box
Anagrams
• woodbox
Source: Wiktionary
Box"wood`, n.
Definition: The wood of the box (Buxus).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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