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.
HELIOTROPES
Noun
heliotropes
plural of heliotrope
Source: Wiktionary
HELIOTROPE
He"li*o*trope, n. Etym: [F. héliotrope, L. heliotropium, Gr. Heliacal, Trope.]
1. (Anc. Astron.)
Definition: An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
3. (Geodesy & Signal Service)
Definition: An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
4. (Min.)
Definition: See Bloodstone (a). Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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