Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
NEOTENY
neoteny
(noun) an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
neoteny (countable and uncountable, plural neotenies)
(biology) The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
(biology) The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage.
Synonyms
• pedomorphism
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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