As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
NUNATAK
Etymology
Noun
nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)
A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]
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• Kuantan
Source: Wiktionary
Nu"na*tak, n.; pl. -taks (#) (the pl. form Nunatakker is Swedish). [Eskimo nunættak.]
Definition: In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ONCHOCERCIASIS
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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