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.
RHABDOID
Etymology
Adjective
rhabdoid (not comparable)
Shaped like a rod.
Noun
rhabdoid (plural rhabdoids)
A spindle-shaped body chemically related to the plastids, found in the cells of certain plants.
Source: Wiktionary
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SQUARE
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
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