In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
AGAMOUS
agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic
(adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
agamous (not comparable)
(biology) Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
Source: Wiktionary
Ag"a*mous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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