According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
ROOTSTOCK
rootstock
(noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
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
rootstock (plural rootstocks)
(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
(by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop
Source: Wiktionary
Root"stock`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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