As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
driftwood
(noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
Source: WordNet® 3.1
driftwood (usually uncountable, plural driftwoods)
A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current.
Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore.
Source: Wiktionary
Drift"wood`, n.
1. Wood drifted or floated by water.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 February 2025
(noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.