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.
PERIPATUS
onychophoran, velvet worm, peripatus
(noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
peripatus (plural peripatuses)
(zoology) Any onychophoran of the genus Peripatus
Source: Wiktionary
Pe*rip"a*tus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DETENTION
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
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