In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
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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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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