TYPHUSES

Noun

typhuses

plural of typhus

Source: Wiktionary


TYPHUS

Ty"phus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. dh smoke.] (Med.)

Definition: A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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WINEBERRY

(noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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