Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
CACTI
CACTUS
cactus
(noun) any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
cacti
plural of cactus
Source: Wiktionary
CACTUS
Cac"tus, n. ; pl. E. Cactuses, Cacti (-ti). Etym: [L., a kind of cactus, Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Any plant of the order Cactacæ, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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