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.
TERGUM
Etymology
Noun
tergum (plural terga)
(entomology) The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod.
Source: Wiktionary
Ter"gum, n.; pl. Terga. Etym: [L., the back.] (Zoöl.) (a) The back of an animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. (c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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