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.
WINTERER
Etymology
Noun
winterer (plural winterers)
(biology) Any person or animal (but especially a bird) that visits or resides in a specified location during the winter
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OBLIGATE
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
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