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.
LUCUMA
Etymology
Noun
lucuma (plural lucumas)
(botany) Any of the genus Lucuma of sapotaceous trees.
Source: Wiktionary
Lu*cu"ma, n. (Bot.)
Definition: An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.
Note: Lucuma mammosum is called natural marmalade in the West Indies; L. Caimito, of Peru, furnishes a delicious fruit called lucuma and caimito.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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