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.
SIPHONOSTELE
Etymology
Noun
siphonostele (plural siphonosteles)
(botany) A type of stele in which the vascular tissue in the stem forms a cylinder surrounding a central pith and possessing leaf gaps.
Antonyms
• protostele
Hyponyms
• atactostele
• dictyostele
• eustele
• solenostele
Source: Wiktionary
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ACCURATE
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
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