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.
PATAGIUM
Etymology
Noun
patagium (plural patagia)
The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.
Source: Wiktionary
Pa*ta"gi*um, n.; pl. Patagia. Etym: [L., an edge or border.]
1. (Anat.)
Definition: In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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