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.
PILOSE
pilous, pilose, pilary
(adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
pilose (comparative more pilose, superlative most pilose)
Covered with fine hair.
Anagrams
• -poleis, Pelosi, Polies, loipes, plesio-, poleis
Source: Wiktionary
Pi*lose", a. Etym: [L. pilosus, fr. pilus hair. See Pile.]
1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERTRIGO
(noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)
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