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.
PROTOPLASM
protoplasm, living substance
(noun) the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
protoplasm (countable and uncountable, plural protoplasms)
(cytology) The entire contents of a cell comprising the nucleus and the cytoplasm. It is a semi-fluid, transparent substance which is the living matter of plant and animal cells.
Source: Wiktionary
Pro"to*plasm, n. Etym: [Proto- + Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
Note: The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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