Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SYNCARP
Etymology
Noun
syncarp (plural syncarps)
(botany) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
(botany) A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.
Source: Wiktionary
Syn"carp, n. Etym: [NL. syncarpium. See Syncarpous.] (Bot.)
Definition: A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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