refugium (plural refugia or refugiums)
Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
(aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.
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4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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.
