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.
DROSERA
Drosera, genus Drosera
(noun) the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
drosera (plural droseras)
Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera.
Synonyms
• sundew
Anagrams
• adorers, arrosed, roaders
Source: Wiktionary
Dros"e*ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
23 January 2025
LEFT
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
Coffee Trivia
