In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
MORPHOPHONEME
morphophoneme
(noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
morphophoneme (plural morphophonemes)
(linguistics) One of the units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed.
Source: Wiktionary
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ELLIPSE
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
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