healthy, salubrious, good for you
(adjective) promoting health; healthful; “a healthy diet”; “clean healthy air”; “plenty of healthy sleep”; “healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy”; “the salubrious mountain air and water”- C.B.Davis; “carrots are good for you”
salubrious
(adjective) favorable to health of mind or body; “not the most salubrious campsite”; “one of the less salubrious suburbs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)
Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially as related to air.
• (promoting health or well-being): healthful
• (promoting health or well-being): insalubrious
Source: Wiktionary
Sa*lu"bri*ous, a. Etym: [L. salubris, or saluber, fr. salus health; akin to salvus safe, sound, well. See Safe.]
Definition: Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
Syn.
– Healthful; wholesome; healthy; salutary.
– Sa-lu"bri*ous*ly, adv.
– Sa*lu"bri*ous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
