In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
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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