sap
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- noun
- /sæp/
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- The strong aroma of evergreen sap displaces the scent of flowers.
- collect sap
- sap in trees
- sap flows
What they eat is the sugary SAP in in plants.
- What they eat is the sugary SAP in in plants.
- And you score the side of a tree for the tree SAP to be collected.
- In fall we splashed in colored leaves, but never sought SAP from these southern trees.
- I would use either spring water or Birch SAP.
- They use the SAP from the rubber tree to process into actual industrial commercial rubber.
- So all that's in here is tree SAP and water and ammonia, right?
Examples
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These are gum Arabic rocks in their natural state from the SAP of the Acacia tree.
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Usually, a man collects sap and prepares toddy alone, although sometimes several men cooperate.
Academic text (1994) -
We would go out there and measure the weight of the SAP and the sugar content.
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The force of the SAP coming up is just too much for the tree.
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And you score the side of a tree for the tree SAP to be collected.
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All of these are part of a group of insects that have made a very successful link living, drinking the SAP from trees, from plants.
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But our blood flows exactly the same way that sap flows through a tree!
Academic text (2001) -
They use the SAP from the rubber tree to process into actual industrial commercial rubber.
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Later, methods of harvesting the sap without destroying the tree were mandated.
Academic text (2011) -
In the spring, we collect sap from maple trees to make delicious syrup.
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Etymology
Sap — The word sap for the plant liquid goes back to old German words for 'juice', and you can see the same idea in German Saft and Dutch sap. The 'sap' is the watery 'juice' that moves food and water through a tree, which is why we call that fluid 'sap' today.