The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
PROPHYLL
prophyll
(noun) a plant structure resembling a leaf
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
prophyll (plural prophylls)
(botany) The frequently specialised or reduced leaf produced at the first node of a new shoot.
Usage notes
Between the coining of the word and the second half of the 20th century, a great amount of confusion existed in the definitions of the word and its equivalents in French and German. Many authors believed the prophyll to be a specific structure, and specialists of the Aroidea often give it such a sense.
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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