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.
MUSCI
Bryopsida, class Bryopsida, Musci, class Musci
(noun) true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Mus"ci, n. pl. Etym: [L. muscus moss.] (Bot.)
Definition: An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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