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.
VIBURNUM
Viburnum, genus Viburnum
(noun) deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
viburnum (plural viburnums)
any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers
Synonyms
• arrowwood
Source: Wiktionary
Vi*bur"num, n. Etym: [L., the wayfaring tree.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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