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.
DIFFERENTIA
differentia
(noun) distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
differentia (plural differentiae)
(semantics, logic, taxonomy) A distinguishing feature which marks a species off from other members of the same genus.
Source: Wiktionary
Dif`fer*en"ti*a, n.; pl. Differentiæ. Etym: [L. See Difference.] (Logic)
Definition: The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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