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.
URUS
aurochs, urus, Bos primigenius
(noun) large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
urus (plural uri or uruses)
The aurochs.
Source: Wiktionary
U"rus, n. Etym: [L.; of Teutonic origin. See Aurochs.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus or primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Cæsar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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