Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SPORIDIUM
Etymology
Noun
sporidium (plural sporidia)
(botany) A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
An ascospore.
Any spore.
Source: Wiktionary
Spo*rid"i*um, n.; pl. Sporidia. Etym: [NL. See Spore.] (Bot.) (a) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi. (b) A spore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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