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.
CROWBERRY
crowberry
(noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crowberry (plural crowberries)
Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.
A fruit of this plant.
Source: Wiktionary
Crow`ber`ry (kr"br`r), n. (Bot.)
Definition: A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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