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.
PROTOGINE
Etymology
Noun
protogine (countable and uncountable, plural protogines)
(geology) A form of granite containing silvery flakes of talc or similar minerals.
Source: Wiktionary
Pro"to*gine, n. Etym: [Proto- + root of Gr. protogyne.] (Min.)
Definition: A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUBDUCTION
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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