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.
NABK
Etymology
Noun
nabk (plural nabks)
Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.
Anagrams
• Bank, Knab, bank, knab
Source: Wiktionary
Nabk, n. Etym: [Ar. nabiqa,nibqa.] (Bot.)
Definition: The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe. [Written also nubk.] See Lotus (b), and Sadr.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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