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.
BIRTHROOT
Etymology
Noun
birthroot (countable and uncountable, plural birthroots)
Trillium erectum, a perennial plant of North America with deep-red flowers.
Source: Wiktionary
Birth"root`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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