In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AMYLOIDAL
starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous
(adjective) resembling starch
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
amyloidal (comparative more amyloidal, superlative most amyloidal)
Alternative form of amyloid
Source: Wiktionary
Am"y*loid, Am`y*loid"al, a. Etym: [L. amylum starch + -oid.]
Definition: Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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