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.
XYLOPHAGAN
Etymology
Noun
xylophagan (plural xylophagans)
Any insect of the genus Xylophaga, which bores into wood.
Source: Wiktionary
Xy*loph"a*gan, n. Etym: [See Xylophagous.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of a tribe of beetles whose larvæ bore or live in wood. (b) Any species of Xylophaga. (c) Any one of the Xylophagides.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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