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.
CARABID
Noun
carabid (plural carabids)
Any of the family Carabidae, the ground beetles.
Source: Wiktionary
Car"a*bid, a. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ.
– n.
Definition: One of the Carabidæ, a family of active insectivorous beetles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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