moutan (plural moutans)
The Chinese tree peony, Paeonia suffruticosa, a shrub with large flowers of various colours.
• amount, mantou, outman, tomaun
Source: Wiktionary
Mou"tan, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The Chinese tree peony (Pæonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
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.
