In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PLANULATE
Etymology
Adjective
planulate (not comparable)
Having a flattened form
(zoology) Having planulae
Noun
planulate (plural planulates)
The flat, free-swimming, ciliated larva of a cnidarian
Source: Wiktionary
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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