In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ZOOTYPE
Etymology
Noun
zootype (plural zootypes)
(biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
(symbology) An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.
Source: Wiktionary
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19 June 2025
ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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