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.
COSTUS
Etymology
Noun
costus (plural costuses)
A perennial tropical herbaceous plant of the genus Costus (family Costaceae).
Saussurea costus, a composite growing on the Himalayas in the vicinity of Kashmir, or its root.
Anagrams
• SCOTUS, Scouts, custos, scouts
Source: Wiktionary
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SOUARI
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
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