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.
HETEROGAMIES
Noun
heterogamies
plural of heterogamy
Source: Wiktionary
HETEROGAMY
Het`er*og"a*my, n. Etym: [See Heterogamous.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate;
– in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate. Claus & Sedgwick.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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