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.
HYGROSCOPICITY
Etymology
Noun
hygroscopicity (countable and uncountable, plural hygroscopicities)
(uncountable) The state of being hygroscopic.
(countable) The degree to which a substance is hygroscopic.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy`gro*sco*pic"i*ty, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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