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.
BREEDER
breeder, stock breeder
(noun) a person who breeds animals
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
breeder (plural breeders)
A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
(slang, derogatory) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
Synonym: Thesaurus:heterosexual
Ellipsis of breeder reactor.; a type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons.
(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
Anagrams
• rebreed
Source: Wiktionary
Breed"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.
2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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