In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RUDERAL
Etymology
Noun
ruderal (plural ruderals)
(botany) Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil
(botany) A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.
Adjective
ruderal (comparative more ruderal, superlative most ruderal)
(botany) That grows in rubbish or poor soil
Coordinate terms
• agrestic
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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