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.
BUFFALOBERRY
Etymology
Noun
buffaloberry (plural buffaloberries)
Any of several shrubs, of the genus Shepherdia, native to North America.
The edible berry of these plants.
Synonyms
• soopolallie
Source: Wiktionary
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