In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MOMBIN
mombin
(noun) purplish tropical fruit
mombin, mombin tree, jocote, Spondias purpurea
(noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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