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.
PHLOXES
Noun
phloxes
plural of phlox
Source: Wiktionary
PHLOX
Phlox, n. Etym: [L., a kind of flower, fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers. Phlox worm (Zoöl.), the larva of an American moth (Heliothis phloxiphaga). It is destructive to phloxes.
– Phlox subulata, the moss pink. See under Moss.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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