Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
APODE
Noun
apode (plural apodes)
Any animal without any feet or foot-like organs.
Anagrams
• paedo, paedo-, pædo-
Source: Wiktionary
Ap"od, Ap"ode, n.; pl. Apods or Apodes. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.
Note: The bird of paradise formerly had the name Paradisea apoda, being supposed to have no feet, as these were wanting in the specimens first obtained from the East Indies.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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