In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
GULFWEED
gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum
(noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gulfweed (usually uncountable, plural gulfweeds)
sargassum; algae of the genus Sargassum.
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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