sap green

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sap green - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sap \Sap\, n. [AS. saep; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi;
     of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to
     be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid,
     Sapient.]
     1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
        and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
        nutrition.
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     Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of
           which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the
           elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.
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     2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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     3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
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     Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
        See Polyporus.
  
     Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
        juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or
        buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
        
  
     Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.
  
     Sap sucker (Zool.), any one of several species of small
        American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus,
        especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (Sphyrapicus  varius
        ) of the Eastern United States. They are so named
        because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the
        sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
  
     Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.
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