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.
CAREX
Carex, genus Carex
(noun) large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
carex (plural carexes or carices)
Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.
Source: Wiktionary
Ca"rex, n. Etym: [L., sedge.] (Bot.)
Definition: A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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