SOFTWOOD

softwood, deal

(noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

softwood (countable and uncountable, plural softwoods)

(countable, mostly, botany) The wood from any conifer (or from Ginkgo), without regard to how soft this wood is.

(countable, in more general use) Wood of this kind but limited to those that are commercial timbers.

(countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields this wood.

(uncountable) Any commercial timber.

Source: Wiktionary



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SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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