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.
COCONUT
coconut, cocoanut
(noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
coconut, coconut meat
(noun) the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
coconut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera
(noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)
A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
(uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
The coconut palm.
(pejorative, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
(South Africa, Australia, pejorative) A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
(New Zealand, pejorative) A Pacific islander.
(slang) A female breast.
(slang) The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).
Coordinate terms
• (acting white): banana, Oreo, Twinkie
Source: Wiktionary
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