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.
WHITEBEAM
Etymology
Noun
whitebeam (plural whitebeams)
Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Sorbus subg. Aria, native to Eurasia, especially the common whitebeam, Sorbus aria.
Source: Wiktionary
White"beam`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HISTOLOGICALLY
(adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques; “histologically identifiable structures”
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