PILIFORM

Etymology

Adjective

piliform (comparative more piliform, superlative most piliform)

Resembling hair

Source: Wiktionary


Pil"i*form, a. Etym: [L. pilus hair + -form.] (Bot.)

Definition: Resembling hairs or down.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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1 May 2025

ECONOMIC

(adjective) of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth; “economic growth”; “aspects of social, political, and economical life”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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