In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
URUSHIOL
Etymology
Noun
urushiol (countable and uncountable, plural urushiols)
(organic chemistry) An oil found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, causing an allergic skin rash on contact; consists of a variable mixture of several related organic compounds.
Coordinate terms
• anacardic acid
Source: Wiktionary
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OBLIGATE
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
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