Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SLAV
Slav
(adjective) speaking a Slavic language; “the Slav population of Georgia”
Slav
(noun) any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Slav, n.;pl. Slavs. Etym: [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. çru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.)
Definition: One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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