In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ROOTAGE
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being; “the Italian beginning of the Renaissance”; “Jupiter was the origin of the radiation”; “Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River”; “communism’s Russian root”
rootage, root system
(noun) a developed system of roots
rootage
(noun) fixedness by or as if by roots; “strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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