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.
BLOODWOOD
Etymology
Noun
bloodwood (countable and uncountable, plural bloodwoods)
Any of various trees having red wood
(Australia) Certain eucalypts
woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)
paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)
(Jamaica) A loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon).
Brosimum paraense, a tree found in Central and South America.
Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.
Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.
(uncountable) The wood of such trees.
Source: Wiktionary
Blood"wood, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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