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.
PROGENY
offspring, progeny, issue
(noun) the immediate descendants of a person; “she was the mother of many offspring”; “he died without issue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
(uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
(countable) A result of a creative effort.
Synonyms
• (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring
Anagrams
• pyrogen
Source: Wiktionary
Prog"e*ny, n. Etym: [OE. progenie, F. progénie, fr. L. progenies, fr. progignere. See Progenitor.]
Definition: Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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IMPROVISED
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
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