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.
KRAMERIA
Etymology
Noun
krameria (plural kramerias)
Any member of the genus Krameria of rhatanies.
Source: Wiktionary
Kra*me"ri*a, n. Etym: [NL. So called after the German botanists, J. G. H. & W. H. Kramer.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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