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.
MONILIFORM
Etymology
Adjective
moniliform
Having a form resembling a string of beads, where the component parts or segments are more or less uniform in size and are spherical or rounded in shape.
Anagrams
• limoniform
Source: Wiktionary
Mo*nil"i*form, a. Etym: [L. monile necklace + -form: cf. F. moniliforme.] (Biol.)
Definition: Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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