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.
BASIDIA
BASIDIUM
basidium
(noun) a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
basidia
plural of basidium
Source: Wiktionary
BASIDIUM
Ba*sid"i*um, n. Etym: [NL., dim. of Gr. base.] (Bot.)
Definition: A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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