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.
CORONAVIRUS
Proper noun
Coronavirus (plural er-noun)
Alternative letter-case form of coronavirus (“the virus SARS-CoV-2 or the disease COVID-19”)
Anagrams
• carnivorous
Etymology
Noun
coronavirus (countable and uncountable, plural coronaviruses)
(virology) A member of the family Coronaviridae, comprising viruses which infect animals and human beings, and the genome of which consists of a single strand of RNA. [from 1968]
SARS-CoV-2, the specific coronavirus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19.
(medicine) An illness caused by a coronavirus.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the specific coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Synonyms
• (member of the family Coronaviridae): crown virus (rare)
• (the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2): corona (clipping), rona (clipping)
• (the disease COVID-19): corona (clipping), rona (clipping)
Anagrams
• carnivorous
Source: Wiktionary
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