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.
TETRAPLOID
Etymology
Adjective
tetraploid (not comparable)
(genetics) Having four times the haploid number of chromosomes in a cell nucleus.
Noun
tetraploid (plural tetraploids)
A tetraploid cell.
A tetraploid organism.
Source: Wiktionary
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NAUSEATING
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
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