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- English Word Sap Definition The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- English Word Sap Definition The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- English Word Sap Definition A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
- English Word Sap Definition To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- English Word Sap Definition To pierce with saps.
- English Word Sap Definition To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- English Word Sap Definition To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- English Word Sap Definition A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- English Word Sapadillo Definition See Sapodila.
- English Word Sapajo Definition The sapajou.
- English Word Sapajou Definition Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.
- English Word Sapan wood Definition A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood.
- English Word Sapful Definition Abounding in sap; sappy.
- English Word Saphead Definition A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.
- English Word Saphenous Definition Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man.
- English Word Saphenous Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes.
- English Word Sapid Definition Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.
- English Word Sapidity Definition The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.
- English Word Sapidness Definition Quality of being sapid; sapidity.
- English Word Sapience Definition The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.