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.
CENTIPEDE
centipede
(noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
centipede (plural centipedes)
Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
Usage notes
• The spelling "centiped" was formerly considered the only correct form by prescriptivists and is still preferred by many scientists who work with myriapods, but this spelling is by far the most common in actual use.
Synonyms
• (any species of class Chilopoda): chilopod
Source: Wiktionary
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