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.
WARTY
verrucose, warty, wartlike
(adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
warty (comparative wartier or more warty, superlative wartiest or most warty)
Having warts.
Similar to a wart.
Synonyms
• (similar to a wart): wartish
Anagrams
• watry
Source: Wiktionary
Wart"y, a.
1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.
2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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