In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
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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RESTORATION
(noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed; “the restoration looked exactly like the original”
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