In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LEUCOPLASTS
Noun
leucoplasts
plural of leucoplast
Source: Wiktionary
LEUCOPLAST
Leu"co*plast, Leu`co*plas"tid, n. Etym: [Leuco- + Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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