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.
SAXICAVOUS
Etymology
Adjective
saxicavous (not comparable)
(zoology) Boring or hollowing out rocks.
a saxicavous mollusk
Source: Wiktionary
Sax`i*ca"vous, a. Etym: [L. saxum rock + cavare to make hollow, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. saxicave.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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