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.
CANTALA
maguey, cantala, Agave cantala
(noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
cantala, Cebu maguey, manila maguey
(noun) hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
cantala (countable and uncountable, plural cantalas)
Cebu maguey; a fiber from the leaves of the Agave cantala.
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