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.
RHIZOME
rhizome, rootstock, rootstalk
(noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rhizome (plural rhizomes)
(botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
(philosophy) A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).
Source: Wiktionary
Rhi*zome", n. Etym: [Gr. rhizome.] (Bot.)
Definition: A rootstock. See Rootstock.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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