Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
OXEYES
Noun
oxeyes
plural of oxeye
Source: Wiktionary
OXEYE
Ox"eye`, n. Etym: [Ox + eye.]
1. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy. (b) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis). (c) A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. coeruleus). [Prov. Eng.] (b) The dunlin. (c) A fish; the bogue, or box. Creeping oxeye (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant (Wedelia carnosa).
– Seaside oxeye (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub (Borrichia arborescens).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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