In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
STELLATE
radial, stellate, radiate
(adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; “radial symmetry”; “a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals”; “many cities show a radial pattern of main highways”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
stellate (not comparable)
Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
Noun
stellate (plural stellates)
A stellate cell
Source: Wiktionary
Stel"late, Stel"la*ted, a. Etym: [L. stellatus, p.p. of stellare to set or cover with stars, from stella a star. See Stellar.]
1. Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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