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.
VEGETATIVELY
Etymology
Adverb
vegetatively (comparative more vegetatively, superlative most vegetatively)
In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
Source: Wiktionary
VEGETATIVE
Veg"e*ta*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. végétatif.]
1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.
– Veg"e*ta*tive*ly, adv.
– Veg"e*ta*tive*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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