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.
HETEROGONY
Etymology
Noun
heterogony (usually uncountable, plural heterogonies)
(botany) The condition of having two or more kinds of flower, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.
Source: Wiktionary
Het`er*og"o*ny, n. Etym: [Hetero- + Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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