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.
HETERODONT
Etymology
Adjective
heterodont (comparative more heterodont, superlative most heterodont)
(zoology) Having teeth of different types (like most mammals)
(zoology) Of hinge teeth: having two to three wedge-shaped cardinal teeth set in the center near the umbones, generally also with elongated lateral teeth on the anterior and posterior margins.
Noun
heterodont (plural heterodonts)
(zoology) A heterodont animal
A North American snake of the genus Heterodon
Source: Wiktionary
Het"er*o*dont, a. Etym: [Hetero- + Gr. (Anat.)
Definition: Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont.
Het"er*o*dont, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any animal with heterodont dentition.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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