In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MYCOPLASMA
mycoplasma
(noun) any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
mycoplasma (countable and uncountable, plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata)
Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Source: Wiktionary
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