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.
GREENFLY
greenfly
(noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
greenfly (plural greenflies or greenfly)
Any of several kinds of common insects green in color
Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth
especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid
Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly
Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead
Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris)
Source: Wiktionary
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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