Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
PAUCITY
dearth, paucity
(noun) an insufficient quantity or number
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)
Fewness in number; too few.
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
Synonyms
• (fewness in number): See fewness
• (smallness in size or amount): dearth, scantiness, scarcity; see also lack
Source: Wiktionary
Pau"ci*ty, n. Etym: [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité See Few.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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