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.
OVIPOSITOR
ovipositor
(noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ovipositor (plural ovipositors)
(zoology) A tubular protruding organ for laying eggs.
Source: Wiktionary
O`vi*pos"i*tor, n. Etym: [L. ovum an egg + positor a placer, fr. ponere to place.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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