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.
CANISTEL
canistel, eggfruit
(noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
canistel, canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa
(noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
canistel (plural canistels)
A tropical tree, Pouteria campechiana, from Central America and the Caribbean, that bears a sweet oval fruit.
The fruit of this tree, having a musky odour.
Anagrams
• incastle, lensatic
Source: Wiktionary
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