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.
hardwood
(noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hardwood (countable and uncountable, plural hardwoods)
(countable, mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
(countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
(uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
(sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.
hardwood (not comparable)
Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.
Source: Wiktionary
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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.