In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
CIRCUMNUTATION
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Noun
circumnutation (countable and uncountable, plural circumnutations)
(botany) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Source: Wiktionary
Cir`cum*nu*ta"tion, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUCH
(adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; “such weeping”; “so much weeping”; “such a help”; “such grief”; “never dreamed of such beauty”
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