The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
LUNGFISHES
LUNGFISH
lungfish
(noun) air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
lungfishes
plural of lungfish
Source: Wiktionary
LUNGFISH
Lung"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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