PAPPOUS

Adjective

pappous (comparative more pappous, superlative most pappous)

(botany) pappose

Source: Wiktionary


Pap"pous, a. (Bot.)

Definition: Pappose.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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27 April 2025

APPROXIMATE

(adjective) not quite exact or correct; “the approximate time was 10 o’clock”; “a rough guess”; “a ballpark estimate”


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Coffee Trivia

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.

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