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.
VITELLUS
yolk, vitellus
(noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vitellus (countable and uncountable, plural vitelli or vitelluses)
(biology) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk.
(botany) Perisperm in an early condition.
Source: Wiktionary
Vi*tel"lus, n. Etym: [L., the yolk of an egg.]
1. (Biol.)
Definition: The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Perisperm in an early condition.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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