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.
VEGETATION
vegetation
(noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; “their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation”
vegetation
(noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
vegetation, flora, botany
(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period; “Pleistocene vegetation”; “the flora of southern California”; “the botany of China”
vegetation
(noun) the process of growth in plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vegetation (countable and uncountable, plural vegetations)
(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
(pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Source: Wiktionary
Veg`e*ta"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.]
1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
3. (Med.)
Definition: An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INVASION
(noun) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; “the tumor’s invasion of surrounding structures”
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