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.
HOATZIN
hoatzin, hoactzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin
(noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hoatzin (plural hoatzins)
A bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen.
Synonyms
• (Opisthocomus hoazin): stinkbird
Source: Wiktionary
Ho"at*zin, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Same as Hoazin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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