The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
PTERIDOPHYTE
pteridophyte, nonflowering plant
(noun) plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pteridophyte (plural pteridophytes)
Any plant of the division Pteridophyta, of simple vascular plants that reproduce via spores rather than seeds and that alternate generations of diploid (sporophyte) and haploid (gametophyte or prothallus) forms, the diploid generally being larger and more conspicuous.
Synonyms
• (plant that reproduces via spores): cryptogam
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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