rectus
(noun) any of various straight muscles
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rectus (plural recti)
(anatomy) Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc.
• Crutes, Curets, Custer, cruets, cruset, curest, curets, eructs, recuts, truces
Source: Wiktionary
Rec"tus (-ts), n.; pl. Recti (-t. Etym: [NL., fr. L. regere to keep straight.] (Anat.)
Definition: A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2024
(verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not; “he is masquerading as an expert on the internet”; “This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty”
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.
