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.
WOODLOUSE
woodlouse, wood louse, slater
(noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
woodlouse (plural woodlice)
Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.
Synonyms
• (any species of suborder Oniscidea): oniscidean
(local terms): slater, armadillo bug, butcher boy, cheese-bug, cheesybug, pill bug, rolly polly, sowbug, sai bug, saisai gnat, saikor bug, sairynkor bug, cham chamruam bug;
Source: Wiktionary
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