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.
BIOTA
biota, biology
(noun) all the plant and animal life of a particular region
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
biota (plural biotas)
(ecology) The living organisms of a region.
Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae).
Source: Wiktionary
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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