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.
ROTIFER
rotifer
(noun) minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rotifer (plural rotifers)
Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera, that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel.
Synonyms: wheel animal, wheel animalcule
Anagrams
• Fortier
Source: Wiktionary
Ro"ti*fer, n. Etym: [NL. see Rotifera.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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