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.
PURINE
purine
(noun) a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances
purine
(noun) any of several bases that are derivatives of purine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
purine (countable and uncountable, plural purines)
(organic compound) Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.
Anagrams
• punier, rein up, unripe
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