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.
MOOSEWOOD
leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris
(noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
moosewood, moose-wood, striped maple, striped dogwood, goosefoot maple, Acer pennsylvanicum
(noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
moosewood (usually uncountable, plural moosewoods)
Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
Hobblebush, Viburnum lantanoides.
Leatherwood (genus Dirca or specifically Dirca palustris)
Source: Wiktionary
Moose"wood`, n. (Bot.) (a) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum). (b) Leatherwood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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