YELLOWWORT

Etymology

Noun

yellowwort (uncountable)

Blackstonia perfoliata, a gentianaceous plant with bright yellow flowers.

Source: Wiktionary


Yel"low*wort`, n. (Bot.)

Definition: A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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