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.
EUDICOTYLEDONS
Noun
eudicotyledons
(botany, uncommon, often, plurale tantum) Alternative form of eudicots
Usage notes
• The shortened form is almost universally used outside of basic definition contexts.
Anagrams
• dicotyledenous
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SALTWORT
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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