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.
pea
(noun) seed of a pea plant used for food
pea, pea plant
(noun) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
pea
(noun) the fruit or seed of a pea plant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Pease
An occupational surname for a seller or grower of peas.
A city in Minnesota.
pease (plural peasen)
(archaic) Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”)
• The original singular was pease (meaning “a pea”), and the plural was peasen. Because of the final [z]-sound, the singular then came to be reinterpreted as a plural form, leading to the backformation of a new singular pea.
pease (third-person singular simple present peases, present participle peasing, simple past and past participle peased)
(obsolete) To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.
(obsolete) To bring (a war, conflict) to an end.
(obsolete) To placate, appease (someone).
Source: Wiktionary
Pease, n.; obs.pl. Peases, Peasen. Etym: [See Pea.]
1. A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.
2. A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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.