Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Robert I
(noun) king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)
Bruce, David Bruce, Sir David Bruce
(noun) Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
