1. Noun
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. Noun
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. Noun
A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
4. Verb
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
5. Verb
To pierce with saps.
6. Verb
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
7. Verb
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
8. Noun
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.
9. Verb
excavate the earth beneath
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10. Noun
a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
Vocabulary classified under Chemistry
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