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.
STERCULIA
sterculia
(noun) any tree of the genus Sterculia
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
sterculia (plural sterculias)
Any of a a number of tropical trees and shrubs, of the genus Sterculia, many of which bear commercially important, oil-rich seeds
Anagrams
• saluretic
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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