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.
WAXBERRY
bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica
(noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries
snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba
(noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
waxberry (plural waxberries)
The bayberry.
The snowberry.
The yangmei.
Source: Wiktionary
Wax"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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