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.
ZYGOPHYTE
Etymology
Noun
zygophyte (plural zygophytes)
(botany) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells.
Source: Wiktionary
Zy"go*phyte, n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeæ), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oöphyte.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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