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.
MYRIAPOD
myriapod
(noun) general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
myriapod (plural myriapods)
(zoology) Any arthropod (such as centipedes and millipedes) of the subphylum Myriapoda
Anagrams
• pyramoid
Source: Wiktionary
Myr"i*a*pod, n. Etym: [Cf. F. myriapode.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the Myriapoda.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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