25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Avesta \A*ves"ta\, noun The Zoroastrian scriptures; the sacred text of Zoroastrianism. See {Zend-Avesta}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

Avesta

noun: a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries [syn: {Zend-Avesta}]
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