methuselah

noun2

1. •
   A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
2. •
   A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.

   • Is there somewhere a list of n-cell methuselah patterns in Conway's Life? (assuming some reasonable limits on the bounding box) — 2003

noun1

1. •
   Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.