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.
RUTABAGA
rutabaga, swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip
(noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
rutabaga, turnip cabbage, swede, Swedish turnip, rutabaga plant, Brassica napus napobrassica
(noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)
(now, North America) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
(now, North America) the edible root of this plant
Synonyms
• swede, Swedish turnip
Source: Wiktionary
Ru`ta-ba"ga, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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