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.
CALCARS
Noun
calcars
plural of calcar
Anagrams
• Sarlacc
Source: Wiktionary
CALCAR
Cal"car, n. Etym: [L. calcaria lime kiln, fr. calx, calcis, lime. See Calx.] (Glass manuf.)
Definition: A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.
Cal"car, n.; L. pl. Calcaria. Etym: [L., a pur, as worn on the heel, also the spur of a cock, fr. calx, calcis, the heel.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
3. (Anat.) (a) A spur, or spurlike prominence. (b) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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