Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
SYNCHYSIS
Etymology
Noun
synchysis (countable and uncountable, plural synchyses)
(poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
(rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence
A confused mixture.
Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.
Source: Wiktionary
Syn"chy*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
Definition: A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye. Sparkling synchysis (Med.), a condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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