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.
RAGWORT
butterweed, ragwort, Senecio glabellus
(noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers
ragwort, tansy ragwort, ragweed, benweed, Senecio jacobaea
(noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ragwort (countable and uncountable, plural ragworts)
Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
Source: Wiktionary
Rag"wort`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.
Note: Senecio aureus is the golden ragwort of the United States: S. elegans is the purple ragwort of South Africa.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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