FLORILEGIA

FLORILEGIUM

florilegium, garland, miscellany

(noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

florilegia

plural of florilegium

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

17 June 2024

SCOPOLAMINE

(noun) an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; “transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness”; “someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying”


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Coffee Trivia

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.

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