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.
SHEEPBERRY
Etymology
Noun
sheepberry (plural sheepberries)
The plant Viburnum lentago, native to the northeastern and midwestern United States and southern Canada.
Its edible fruit.
Synonyms
• nannyberry
Source: Wiktionary
Sheep"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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