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.
ECTOTHERM
poikilotherm, ectotherm
(noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals
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Etymology
Noun
ectotherm (plural ectotherms)
(biology) An animal, such as an amphibian, fish, reptile, or arthropod, which has a limited ability to regulate its body temperature and whose body temperature thus depends on the ambient temperature.
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(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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