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.
SEMILUNAR
semilunar, crescent-shaped, crescent(a), lunate
(adjective) resembling the new moon in shape
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
semilunar (not comparable)
Shaped like a half-moon; crescent-shaped.
Noun
semilunar (plural semilunars)
(anatomy) The lunate bone, or semilunar bone.
Anagrams
• Lemurians, Rumelians, linear sum, unrealism
Source: Wiktionary
Sem`i*lu"nar, a.
Definition: Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n.
– Semilunar, or Sigmoid, valves (Anat.), the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle.
Sem`i*lu"nar, n. (Anat.)
Definition: The semilunar bone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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