CORDYLINE

Cordyline, genus Cordyline

(noun) Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

cordyline (plural cordylines)

Any member of the genus Cordyline of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants, native to the western Pacific Ocean region.

Anagrams

• cerylonid

Source: Wiktionary



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PERESTROIKA

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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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