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.
TRIOECIOUS
Etymology
Adjective
trioecious (not comparable)
(botany) Having male (staminate), female (pistillate), and bisexual flowers on the same plant (also known as "polygamous"); belonging to the former Linnæan order Trioecia.
(zoology) Having three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite, as some nematodes.
Source: Wiktionary
Tri*oe"cious, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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