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.
PLICATE
pleat, plicate
(verb) fold into pleats; “Pleat the cloth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
plicate (comparative more plicate, superlative most plicate)
(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.
Synonyms
• (folded): corrugated, folded, plicated
Verb
plicate (third-person singular simple present plicates, present participle plicating, simple past and past participle plicated)
(chiefly biology) To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).
Source: Wiktionary
Pli"cate, Pli"ca*ted, a. Etym: [L. plicatus, p. p. of plicare to fold.]
Definition: Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.
– Pli"cate*ly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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