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.
HEMITROPOUS
Etymology
Adjective
hemitropous (comparative more hemitropous, superlative most hemitropous)
Turned half round; half inverted.
(botany, of an ovule) Having the raphe terminating about halfway between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous.
Synonyms
• hemitropal
Source: Wiktionary
He*mit"ro*pal, He*mit"ro*pous, a. Etym: [See Hemitrope.]
1. Turned half round; half inverted.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule. Gray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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