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.
ORTHOTROPIC
Etymology
Adjective
orthotropic (not comparable)
(botany) Growing vertically, either upwards or downwards.
(engineering) Having material properties that differ along three mutually orthogonal twofold axes of rotational symmetry.
Hypernym: anisotropic
Source: Wiktionary
Or`tho*trop"ic, a. Etym: [See Orthotropal.] (Bot.)
Definition: Having the longer axis vertical; -- said of erect stems. Encyc. Brit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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