gesneria
(noun) any plant of the genus Gesneria
Source: WordNet® 3.1
From the genus name, after Conrad Gessner.
gesneria (plural gesnerias)
(botany) Any of the genus Gesneria of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae.
• anergies
Source: Wiktionary
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
