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.
VACCINIUM
Vaccinium, genus Vaccinium
(noun) evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
vaccinium (plural vacciniums)
(botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
Source: Wiktionary
Vac*cin"i*um, n. Etym: [L., the blueberry, or whortleberry.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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