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.
URCEOLATE
urceolate
(adjective) urn-shaped; large below and contracted toward the mouth
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
urceolate (comparative more urceolate, superlative most urceolate)
(botany) Shaped like an urn.
Having an urceolus.
Source: Wiktionary
Ur"ce*o*late, Ur"ce*late, a. Etym: [L. urceolus, dim. of urceus a pitcher or waterpot.] (Nat. Hist.)
Definition: Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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