Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SAMISEN
samisen, shamisen
(noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
samisen (plural samisens or samisen)
Alternative form of shamisen
Anagrams
• Eismans, Messina, inseams, manises, sesamin
Source: Wiktionary
Sam"i*sen, n. [Jap.] (Mus.)
Definition: A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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