Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SPORULATE
sporulate
(verb) convert into spores
sporulate
(verb) produce spores; “plants sporulate”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
sporulate (third-person singular simple present sporulates, present participle sporulating, simple past and past participle sporulated)
(biology, intransitive) To produce spores
Adjective
sporulate (not comparable)
(botany) That produces spores
Antonyms
• asporulate
Anagrams
• sportulae
Source: Wiktionary
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