In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TROPOPHYTE
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Noun
tropophyte (plural tropophytes)
(biology) Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought
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