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.
POLLENING
Verb
pollening
present participle of pollen
Source: Wiktionary
POLLEN
Pol"len, n. Etym: [L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr.
1. Fine bran or flour. [Obs.] Bailey.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen.
– Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray.
– Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther.
– Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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