Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
ADVENTITIOUS
adventitious
(adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part; “poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form”- Frederick W. Robertson; “they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
adventitious (comparative more adventitious, superlative most adventitious)
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
Synonyms
• (from an external source): extrinsic
• (accidental, additional): accidental, spontaneous, sporadic; see also accidental
• (not congenital): acquired
Source: Wiktionary
Ad`ven*ti"tious, a. Etym: [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.)
Definition: Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
4. (Med.)
Definition: Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
– Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv.
– Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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