DERNY

Etymology

Named after the French manufacturer of the original derny bicycle, Roger Derny et Fils.

Noun

derny (plural dernies)

(cycling) A motorized bicycle for paced cycling events such as keirin.

Anagrams

• Ryden, nerdy

Source: Wiktionary



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5 May 2025

UNEXPLOITED

(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used; “vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources”; “taxes on undeveloped lots are low”


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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.

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