In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DEAMINATE
deaminate, deaminize
(verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
deaminate (third-person singular simple present deaminates, present participle deaminating, simple past and past participle deaminated)
(organic chemistry, biochemistry, transitive) To remove an amino group from (a compound), especially by the use of a deaminase enzyme.
Anagrams
• antiedema
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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