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.
POMEGRANATES
Noun
pomegranates
plural of pomegranate
Anagrams
• magnoperates
Source: Wiktionary
POMEGRANATE
Pome"gran`ate, n. Etym: [OE. pomgarnet, OF. pome de grenate, F. grenade, L. pomum a fruit + granatus grained, having many grains or seeds. See Pome, and Garnet, Grain.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.
2. A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate. Ex. xxviii. 33.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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