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.
TOMENTOSE
tomentose, tomentous
(adjective) densely covered with short matted woolly hairs; “a tomentose leaf”
tomentose
(adjective) covered with densely matted filaments
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tomentose (not comparable)
(biology, of a surface) covered in (often matted) hairs
Anagrams
• metosteon, tenotomes
Source: Wiktionary
To"men*tose`, a. Etym: [L. tomentum a stuffing of wool, hair, or feathers: cf. F. tomenteux.] (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Definition: Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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