In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HETEROGENESIS
Etymology
Noun
heterogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural heterogeneses)
(biology) Abnormal organic development.
(biology) The birth of a living being from a parent of a different kind; having two different forms in the life cycle.
Source: Wiktionary
Het`er*o*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Hetero- + genesis.]
1. (Biol.)
Definition: Spontaneous generation, so called.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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