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.
PLANKTON
plankton
(noun) the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
plankton (usually uncountable, plural planktons or plankton)
Small (often microscopic) organisms that float in the water. (A single organism is known as a plankter.)
Coordinate terms
• nekton
Source: Wiktionary
Plank"ton (plank"ton), n. [NL., fr. Gr. plagto`n, neut. of plagto`s wandering, pla`zesqai to wander.] (Biol.)
Definition: All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic (#), a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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