POLYGENOUS

Etymology

Adjective

polygenous (comparative more polygenous, superlative most polygenous)

Consisting of, or containing, many kinds or genres

of or pertaining to polygenesis

Source: Wiktionary


Po*lyg"e*nous, a. Etym: [Poly- + -genous: cf. Gr.

Definition: Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain. Kirwan.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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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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