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.
NOCTUIDS
Noun
noctuids
plural of noctuid
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Source: Wiktionary
NOCTUID
Noc"tu*id, n. Etym: [From L. nox, noctis, night.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidæ, or Noctuælitæ, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; -- so called because they fly at night.
– a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidæ.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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