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.
leech, bloodsucker, hirudinean
(noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hirudinean (plural hirudineans)
Any leech of the subclass Hirudinea
Source: Wiktionary
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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.