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Another word for sap

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Noun

  1. A person who is easily deceived or victimized

    See also:

    wise

Verb

  1. To lessen or deplete the nerve, energy, or strength of

    See also:

    strong

  2. To lessen or weaken severely, as by removing something essential

    See also:

    rich

    increase

    give

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Another word for sap

Noun

  1. The life fluid of a plant

    See also:

    juice

  2. A vital fluid

    See also:

    blood

  3. *A dupe

    See also:

    fool

Verb
  1. See also:

    weaken

    weaken

    drain

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Sentence Examples

  • Eventually it was found that the best plan was to sap through them.

  • Sugar is also prepared from the sap in a similar manner to that obtained from the maple.

  • The plant is propagated from suckers and requires very little attention after transplanting to the field where it is to remain, but it takes six to eight years to mature and then yields an average of ten gallons of sap during a period of four or five months, after which it dies.

  • In his Statical Essays (1727) he gave an account of numerous experiments and observations which he had made on the nutrition of plants and the movement of sap in them.

  • A tree may yield 3 gallons of juice a day and continue flowing for six weeks; but on an average only about 4 lb of sugar are obtained from each tree, 4 to 6 gallons of sap giving 1 lb of sugar.

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