Lavatera, genus Lavatera
(noun) widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
From the genus name.
lavatera (plural lavateras)
(botany) Any of the genus Lavatera of malvaceous flowering plants.
• Talavera
Source: Wiktionary
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
