Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
PRIMATES
Primates, order Primates
(noun) an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
primates
plural of primate
Source: Wiktionary
Pri*ma"tes, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.
PRIMATE
Pri"mate, n. Etym: [OE. primat, F. primat, L. primas, -atis one of the first, chief, fr. primus the first. See Prime, a.]
1. The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the Primates.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; “the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English”; “he has a strong German accent”; “it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy”
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