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.
SEPALS
Noun
sepals
plural of sepal
Anagrams
• Slapes, lapses, passel, saleps, spales
Source: Wiktionary
SEPAL
Se"pal, n. Etym: [NL. sepalum, formed in imitation of NL. petalum, petal, to denote one of the divisions of the calyx: cf. F. sépale.] (Bot.)
Definition: A leaf or division of the calyx.
Note: When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous; when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when of several parts united, it is properly called gamosepalous.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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