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.
NARAS
Etymology
Noun
naras
(South Africa) A spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, or the melon-like fruit that it produces. [from 19th c.]
Anagrams
• Arans, Sarna, asRNA, asrna, saRNA, saran
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