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sap
  1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  3. (slang, countable) a naive person; a simpleton
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  5. Examples:
    1. “A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant sap but also providing water and nutrients to the plant.”
      “They were fresh and flourishing, full of sap and vigor, though many of them had been born long before him.”
      “They may meet with a measure of success for a time, till the sap of youth is gone out of them.”
sapsucker
  1. A woodpecker of the eastern United States (of the genus Sphyrapicus) that feeds mainly on the sap of trees
  2. Any woodpecker that punctures the bark of trees and feeds upon the sap.
  3. Examples:
    1. “A small woodpecker flew into a tree above me, and when I saw its slender profile and long bill, I thought it must be a sapsucker.”
      “Immature birds have been observed eating sap from sapsucker holes in trees.”
      “Our latest visitor, number 138, was a woodpecker, a yellow-bellied sapsucker.”
sapper
  1. One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This trend continued after Crown rule in 1858 and nearly all military engineers seconded to the Indian Army were British sapper officers.”
      “Maybe it's time for a change of taker because missing spot kicks is a big confidence sapper.”
      “Chris, 21, said he was happy to be back in his home town after a long stint in Iraq as a sapper with his Germany-based Royal Engineers unit.”
sap
  1. (military) 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.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant sap but also providing water and nutrients to the plant.”
      “They were fresh and flourishing, full of sap and vigor, though many of them had been born long before him.”
      “They may meet with a measure of success for a time, till the sap of youth is gone out of them.”
sap
  1. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant sap but also providing water and nutrients to the plant.”
      “They were fresh and flourishing, full of sap and vigor, though many of them had been born long before him.”
      “They may meet with a measure of success for a time, till the sap of youth is gone out of them.”
saplessness
  1. The state or condition of being sapless.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sebastian, for all his saplessness and debaucheries, has the gift of grace which, accommodatingly, sets him outside human jurisdiction.”
sapping
sapsuckers
  1. plural of sapsucker
sappings
sappers
  1. plural of sapper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The BCT, like the divisional brigade, is built around its maneuver battalions and direct support by sappers and artillery.”
      “This is extremely significant when you consider the reduction of the number of sappers in combat engineer companies.”
      “A third of the sappers and gunners were casualties, and nearly all the mules were dead or streaming with blood.”
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