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.
SHRUB
shrub, bush
(noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
A play on his surname Bush, shrub being another word for bush.
Proper noun
Shrub
(derogatory, informal) Former U.S. president George W. Bush.
Anagrams
• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs
Etymology 1
Noun
shrub (plural shrubs)
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
Synonyms
• bush (plant)
Verb
shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)
(obsolete) To lop; to prune.
(transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
Etymology 2
Noun
shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
Anagrams
• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs
Source: Wiktionary
Shrub, n. Etym: [Ar. shirb, shurb, a drink, beverage, fr. shariba to drink. Cf. Sirup, Sherbet.]
Definition: A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Shrub, n. Etym: [OE. schrob, AS. scrob, scrobb; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.] (Bot.)
Definition: A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
Shrub, v. t.
Definition: To lop; to prune. [Obs.] Anderson (1573).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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