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.
FOXBERRY
cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
foxberry (plural foxberries)
The plant cowberry or lingonberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
The berry of this plant.
Source: Wiktionary
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