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- English Word Sapphire Definition Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
- English Word Sapphirine Definition Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.
- English Word Sappho Definition Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
- English Word Sappiness Definition The quality of being sappy; juiciness.
- English Word Sapping Definition of Sap
- English Word Sappodilla Definition See Sapodilla.
- English Word Sappy Definition Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
- English Word Sappy Definition Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
- English Word Sappy Definition Weak in intellect.
- English Word Sappy Definition Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
- English Word Sappy Definition Musty; tainted.
- English Word Saprophagan Definition One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
- English Word Saprophagous Definition Feeding on carrion.
- English Word Saprophyte Definition Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
- English Word Saprophytic Definition Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
- English Word Sapsago Definition A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
- English Word Sapskull Definition A saphead.
- English Word Sapucaia Definition A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.
- English Word Sapwood Definition The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
- English Word Sarabaite Definition One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.