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.
PEDICLE
pedicel, pedicle
(noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pedicle (plural pedicles)
(zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
(zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
pedicel (any sense)
peduncle (any sense)
(surgery) Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
A fetter for the foot.
Anagrams
• pedicel
Source: Wiktionary
Ped"i*cle, n. Etym: [L. pediculus a little foot, dim. of pes foot: cf. F. pédicule. See edal, and cf. Pedicel.]
Definition: Same as Pedicel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
22 January 2025
MEGALITH
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
Coffee Trivia
