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.
BRACT
bract
(noun) a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bract (plural bracts)
(botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
Source: Wiktionary
Bract, n. Etym: [See Bractea.] (Bot.) (a) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. (b) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
Note: Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants. The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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