"flourished circa 610\u2013 circa 570 b.c. Greek poet":[]
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-(\u02cc)f\u014d"
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"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city on western Hokkaido, Japan population 1,913,545":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u00e4-\u02c8p\u022fr-(\u02cc)\u014d",
"\u02c8s\u00e4-p\u014d-\u02ccr\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043554",
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"geographical name"
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"antonyms":[],
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": a foolish gullible person":[],
": blackjack , bludgeon":[],
": bodily health and vigor":[],
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": to gradually diminish the supply or intensity of":[
"sapped her strength"
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": to knock out with a sap":[],
": to operate against or pierce by a sap":[],
": to proceed by digging a sap":[],
": to subvert by digging or eroding the substratum or foundation : undermine":[],
": to weaken or exhaust the energy or vitality of":[
"the illness sapped him of his stamina"
]
},
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"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1642, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"French sape , from saper":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English s\u00e6p ; akin to Old High German saf sap":"Noun",
"Middle French sapper , from Old Italian zappare , from zappa hoe":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8sap"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004444",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"sap cavity":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": vacuole":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"sap entry 1":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023838",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sap chafer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of various sap-feeding flower beetles especially of the family Cetoniidae":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105430",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sap pine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a pitch pine ( Pinus rigida )":[],
": loblolly":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053557",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapa":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": grape juice evaporated to a syrupy consistency or to the consistency of honey and used especially in the 16th century as a cough cure : must":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin; akin to Latin sapere to taste, have good taste":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0101p\u0259"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221505",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapajou":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": capuchin sense 3b":[],
": spider monkey":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Tupi":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sap\u0259\u02ccj\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060942",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapan":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the heartwood of sappanwood formerly used as an astringent":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Malay sapang":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa\u02ccpan",
"s\u0259\u02c8pan"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034459",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapanwood":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of sapanwood variant spelling of sappanwood"
],
"examples":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-113603",
"type":[]
},
"saphead":{
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
],
"definitions":{
": a weak-minded stupid person : sap":[]
},
"examples":[
"an important diplomatic post that is no place for a saphead"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1691, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sap-\u02cched"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220701",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"saphie":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a West African talisman, amulet, or charm":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Mandingo safaye":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125907",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"saphir d'eau":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": water sapphire":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"sa\u02c8fi(\u0259)r\u02c8d\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184425",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapiao":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a round haul net of the Philippines made of cotton twine and used for catching small pelagic fishes":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"native name in the Philippines":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00e4p\u0113\u02c8au\u0307"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214657",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapid":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": agreeable to the mind":[],
": having flavor : flavorful":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin sapidus tasty, from sapere to taste \u2014 more at sage":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-p\u0259d",
"\u02c8sap-\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235937",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun,"
]
},
"sapience":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": wisdom , sagacity":[]
},
"examples":[
"the kind of sapience that comes from a lifetime of experience as an educator",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience , as though only the na\u00efve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 27 Nov. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sapientia , from sapient-, sapiens , present participle":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-",
"\u02c8s\u0101-p\u0113-\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"wisdom"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034134",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapient":{
"antonyms":[
"unperceptive",
"unwise"
],
"definitions":{
": possessing or expressing great sagacity":[]
},
"examples":[
"an uncle who is always good for valuable insights and some sapient advice",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The reason for this is that a focus on just four creature types (Party only cares about wizards, rogues, warriors and clerics) would have limited the design opportunities for the rest of the set, which includes plenty of non- sapient creatures. \u2014 Joe Parlock, Forbes , 24 June 2021",
"Many wise and sapient social historians have written on the American cult, and invention, of the weekend. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, Town & Country , 29 May 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin sapient-, sapiens , from present participle of sapere to taste, be wise \u2014 more at sage":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-",
"\u02c8s\u0101-p\u0113-\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sapient wise , sage , sapient , judicious , prudent , sensible , sane mean having or showing sound judgment. wise suggests great understanding of people and of situations and unusual discernment and judgment in dealing with them. wise beyond his tender years sage suggests wide experience, great learning, and wisdom. the sage advice of my father sapient suggests great sagacity and discernment. the sapient musings of an old philosopher judicious stresses a capacity for reaching wise decisions or just conclusions. judicious parents using kindness and discipline in equal measure prudent suggests the exercise of restraint guided by sound practical wisdom and discretion. a prudent decision to wait out the storm sensible applies to action guided and restrained by good sense and rationality. a sensible woman who was not fooled by flattery sane stresses mental soundness, rationality, and levelheadedness. remained sane even in times of crises",
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"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"wise"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231701",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"sapless":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a body fluid (such as blood) essential to life, health, or vigor":[],
": a foolish gullible person":[],
": blackjack , bludgeon":[],
": bodily health and vigor":[],
": the extension of a trench to a point beneath an enemy's fortifications":[],
": to drain or deprive of sap":[],
": to gradually diminish the supply or intensity of":[
"sapped her strength"
],
": to knock out with a sap":[],
": to operate against or pierce by a sap":[],
": to proceed by digging a sap":[],
": to subvert by digging or eroding the substratum or foundation : undermine":[],
": to weaken or exhaust the energy or vitality of":[
"the illness sapped him of his stamina"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1642, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French sape , from saper":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English s\u00e6p ; akin to Old High German saf sap":"Noun",
"Middle French sapper , from Old Italian zappare , from zappa hoe":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sap"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sap Verb (2) weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , undermine , sap , cripple , disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. a disease that weakens the body's defenses enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness. enfeebled by starvation debilitate suggests a less marked or more temporary impairment of strength or vitality. the debilitating effects of surgery undermine and sap suggest a weakening by something working surreptitiously and insidiously. a poor diet undermines your health drugs had sapped his ability to think cripple implies causing a serious loss of functioning power through damaging or removing an essential part or element. crippled by arthritis disable suggests bringing about impairment or limitation in a physical or mental ability. disabled by an injury sustained at work",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110128",
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
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},
"sapped":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
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": a foolish gullible person":[],
": blackjack , bludgeon":[],
": bodily health and vigor":[],
": the extension of a trench to a point beneath an enemy's fortifications":[],
": to drain or deprive of sap":[],
": to gradually diminish the supply or intensity of":[
"sapped her strength"
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": to knock out with a sap":[],
": to operate against or pierce by a sap":[],
": to proceed by digging a sap":[],
": to subvert by digging or eroding the substratum or foundation : undermine":[],
": to weaken or exhaust the energy or vitality of":[
"the illness sapped him of his stamina"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1642, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French sape , from saper":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English s\u00e6p ; akin to Old High German saf sap":"Noun",
"Middle French sapper , from Old Italian zappare , from zappa hoe":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sap"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sap Verb (2) weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , undermine , sap , cripple , disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. a disease that weakens the body's defenses enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness. enfeebled by starvation debilitate suggests a less marked or more temporary impairment of strength or vitality. the debilitating effects of surgery undermine and sap suggest a weakening by something working surreptitiously and insidiously. a poor diet undermines your health drugs had sapped his ability to think cripple implies causing a serious loss of functioning power through damaging or removing an essential part or element. crippled by arthritis disable suggests bringing about impairment or limitation in a physical or mental ability. disabled by an injury sustained at work",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023327",
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
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},
"sapphirine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": made of sapphire":[],
": resembling sapphire especially in color":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"sa-\u02c8f\u012b-r\u0259n",
"\u02c8sa-\u02ccf\u012br-\u02cc\u0113n",
"\u02c8sa-f\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bn"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134729",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sapphirine gurnard":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a European gurnard ( Trigla hirundo ) having the pectoral fins much blotched with a rich blue":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190829",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapphism":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": lesbianism":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most of the women who come for an evening of unabashed sapphism with Skirt Club identify as straight, says LeJeune, a former Bloomberg journalist currently married to a man. \u2014 Wednesday Martin, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Sappho + -ism ; from the belief that Sappho was sexually attracted to other women":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-\u02ccfi-z\u0259m",
"\u02c8saf-\u02cciz-\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082816",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sappiness":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being sappy : foolishness":[],
": the state of being full of or smelling of sap":[]
},
"examples":[
"the over-the-top sappiness of the verse on the Valentine's Day card",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But if sappiness or shyness aren\u2019t really the show\u2019s thing, sensitivity is. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
"That means giving the star a chance to be heroic and funny, while adding a dollop of heart that borders a bit too much on sappiness . \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Those early moments of violence are actually some of the only ones in a movie that\u2019s fairly light on the gore and heavy on the sappiness , as if Argento\u2019s knives had been dulled by age. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The script, by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, is lovely but modest\u2014a tale of Vogel\u2019s personal redemption and self-improvement that could easily come off with the sappiness of a Hallmark special. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 21 Nov. 2019",
"As spoken by one character, that line sounds like del Toro\u2019s credited allies the Coen Brothers, which exposes the snark at the base of del Toro\u2019s left-wing sappiness . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 15 Dec. 2017",
"The elasticity of language, the silliness and sappiness , felt very much like the expression of the twins. \u2014 Parul Seghal, The Atlantic , 17 June 2017",
"Mara\u2019s up for it all, but the nudge toward sappiness over messiness feels like the slightest step backward. \u2014 Robert Abele, latimes.com , 8 June 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1552, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-p\u0113-n\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bathos",
"gooeyness",
"lovey-doveyness",
"mawkishness",
"mush",
"mushiness",
"saccharinity",
"sentimentalism",
"sentimentality",
"sloppiness",
"soppiness",
"syrup",
"sirup"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071502",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sapples":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": suds":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably diminutive (plural) of English dialect (Scots) saip soap, from Old English s\u0101pe":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sap\u0259lz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030057",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"sappy":{
"antonyms":[
"unsentimental"
],
"definitions":{
": abounding with sap":[],
": lacking in good sense : silly":[],
": overly sweet or sentimental":[],
": resembling or consisting largely of sapwood":[]
},
"examples":[
"She gets all sappy when she is around babies.",
"a sappy letter filled with silly romantic clich\u00e9s",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pundits taunted Drake for subscribing to this nonlinear narrative of sappy love songs or braggadocious rap records. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 28 June 2022",
"Romance served as the impetus behind the brand\u2019s Young Rose, but the scent isn\u2019t a sappy tale. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Using bold accent colors prevents pastel palettes from looking too sappy . \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The resulting book is beautiful and wise without ever being sappy or manipulative. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Our sappy human brains and their tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects kicked in. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Rather than having to carry on awkward pleasantry conversations with a driver, the passenger can just go for a ride and not need to engage in sappy dialogue. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 15 May 2021",
"Still, the show managed to put on a great Hanukkah episode that features some equally sappy and funny flashbacks, plus a very special performance by Ray Charles. \u2014 Rebecca Caplan, Vulture , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Being a parent is full of so many incredibly sappy moments. \u2014 Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful , 19 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-p\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"chocolate-box",
"cloying",
"corny",
"drippy",
"fruity",
"gooey",
"lovey-dovey",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"novelettish",
"saccharine",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"slushy",
"soppy",
"soupy",
"spoony",
"spooney",
"sticky",
"sugarcoated",
"sugary",
"wet"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220000",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"saprophytic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsap-r\u0259-\u02c8fit-ik",
"\u02ccsa-pr\u0259-\u02c8fi-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If that\u2019s the case, this could be a saprophytic fungus developing off that tissue. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 12 Nov. 2020",
"Your thumbnail photo is quite small and quite dark, but these are some type of saprophytic fungal growth that is present because the branches were dead. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 28 May 2020"
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"Portuguese sapucaia , from Tupi zabuc\u00e1ya, sapuc\u00e1ya":""
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"noun"
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": a genus of large free-living or commensal aquatic spirochetes (family Spirochaetaceae) having neither crista nor flagella":[]
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"\u02ccsapr\u0259\u02c8sp\u012br\u0259"
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"noun"
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": a saprophytic organism":[]
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"\u02c8sa-pr\u0259-\u02ccf\u012bt",
"\u02c8sap-r\u0259-\u02ccf\u012bt"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Superficially, cancer root appears like Indian pipe, a woodland dwelling saprophyte , a plant that feeds on decomposing plant matter. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2018"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"1870, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"adjective"
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"\u02ccsa-pr\u0259-\u02c8z\u014d-ik",
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-123456"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a railroad crosstie having sapwood wider than one-fourth the width of the tie on the top at a point between 20 and 40 inches from the middle of the tie":[]
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"noun"
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": lecythidaceae":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164252"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a strong yellow green":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004516"
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"noun"
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": any of a genus ( Sphyrapicus ) of North American woodpeckers that drill holes in trees in order to obtain sap and insects for food":[]
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"\u02c8sap-\u02ccs\u0259-k\u0259r"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hampden County: The area hosted a Barrow\u2019s goldeneye on the Connecticut River in Chicopee, lingers included a gray catbird at Laughing Brook Sanctuary and a yellow-bellied sapsucker in Springfield. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
"For trees in stress with yellow leaves, mistletoe, sapsucker damage, dead tip growth and other symptoms, apply the entire Sick Tree Treatment. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Other North American woodpeckers that cache are downy, red-headed, hairy, Lewis, red-bellied, gila, golden-fronted and red-bellied sapsucker . \u2014 Jim Williams, Star Tribune , 24 Nov. 2020",
"Prior to Hercules' tenure at the airport, wildlife strikes have included at least two coyotes, two deer, three bats, three geese and a yellow bellied sapsucker . \u2014 Rick Steelhammer, chicagotribune.com , 25 Aug. 2020",
"Other highlights included a prairie warbler, a common yellowthroat, a rusty blackbird, and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers in Wellfleet, and a vesper sparrow in Truro. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Jan. 2020",
"Yep, those straight rows or columns of holes in the trunks and limbs of your tree are compliments of the pretty sapsucker woodpecker. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 13 Aug. 2019",
"The holes are not caused by borers, but instead by woodpeckers or sapsuckers . \u2014 Neil Sperry, star-telegram , 27 Apr. 2018",
"This is the time of year sapsucker can be active (late winter through spring). \u2014 Contributing Writer, NOLA.com , 19 Feb. 2018"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070121"
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"noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"-\u02c8d\u0113-y\u0259",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every detail of the hotel's design, including sapodilla wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and limestone sourced from only 31 miles away, has been chosen for its minimal environmental impact. \u2014 Nili Blanck, Travel + Leisure , 9 Nov. 2021",
"Several more hours in the minivan took us to the Mayan ruins of Palenque, a 7th century former city-state of stone temples surrounded by centuries-old red cedar, sapodilla and mahogany trees. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Aug. 2019"
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"Spanish zapotillo , diminutive of zapote sapodilla fruit, from Nahuatl tzapotl":""
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"1697, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-101556"
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"adjective",
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": a large family of chiefly tropical and predominantly Old World woody plants (order Sapindales ) with alternate and usually pinnate or trifoliolate leaves that lack stipules, small flowers commonly in axillary or terminal panicles, and a fruit that may be capsular, drupaceous, or made up of samaras":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-104851"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": feeding on decaying matter":[]
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"sa-\u02c8pr\u00e4-f\u0259-g\u0259s",
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"New Latin saprophagus , from sapr- + -phagus -phagous":""
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-125735"
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"noun"
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": a person considered in relation to any of his or her three or sometimes six nearest lineal male ancestors or descendants":[]
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"Sanskrit sapi\u1e47\u1e0da , literally, having the same lump, from sa- one and the same (akin to sama same) + pi\u1e47\u1e0da lump of rice offered to deceased ancestors; from the fact that the lump is offered to the three nearest ancestors and the crumbs to the next three":""
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"noun"
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": a genus of tropical and subtropical trees (family Hippocastanaceae) having simply pinnate leaves, flowers nearly regular, and fruit a globose or 2- or 3-lobed berry \u2014 see soapberry \u2014 compare sapindaceae":[]
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"New Latin, probably from Latin sapo soap + Indus of India, India, from Greek Indos":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-164801"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate occurring in soft soapy amorphous masses and filling veins and cavities (as in serpentine)":[]
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"Swedish saponit , from Latin sapon-, sapo soap":""
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": a family of trees or shrubs (order Ebenales) that are widely distributed in tropical regions and have milky juice, coriaceous leaves, and axillary flowers with stamens in two or three whorls borne on the corolla and often in alternation with staminodia and a superior 2-celled to many-celled ovary followed by often edible fleshy fruits":[]
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"New Latin, from Sapota (synonym of Achras ) + -aceae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-215537"
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": a very hard green skim-milk cheese flavored with the powdered leaves of an aromatic European legume ( Trigonella caerulea )":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"modification of German Schabziger":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rinsing rids quinoa of the bitter saponin , which coats the seed. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 25 Mar. 2018",
"This removes a natural pesticide found on the exterior of the kernels known as saponins . \u2014 Good Housekeeping , 6 Mar. 2018",
"One reason quinoa has only recently become popular outside the Andes is that the grains are covered by saponins , a bitter tasting substance. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 13 Feb. 2017",
"More recipes: Quinoa comes with a pest-repellent coating called saponin . \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 22 July 2017",
"Doing so removes the outer layer called saponin , which can lend an unpleasantly bitter flavor. \u2014 Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit , 19 Feb. 2017"
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"French saponine , from Latin sapon-, sapo":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In places where there are no rubber fig trees nearby, villagers must first plant a sapling on the river bank and wait 10-15 years for the aerial roots to appear before building the bamboo framework. \u2014 Anne Pinto-rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 June 2022",
"The tree came from a sapling of a nearby magnolia planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1835. \u2014 Will Weissert, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2022",
"The tree came from a sapling of a nearby magnolia planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1835. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 31 May 2022",
"The tree came from a sapling of a nearby magnolia planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1835. \u2014 Will Weissert, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2022",
"The tree came from a sapling of a nearby magnolia planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1835. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 31 May 2022",
"The tree came from a sapling of a nearby magnolia planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1835. \u2014 Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"On a similar note, the Belize Audubon Society is offering trees to visitors all week at their Belize City office, urging them to snap a photo with their sapling and then plant it in a safe place. \u2014 Jared Ranahan, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Residents will receive a free sapling tree to plant. \u2014 cleveland , 15 Apr. 2022"
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": an order of chiefly aquatic fungi (class Phycomycetes) having a well-developed mycelium, both sexual and asexual reproduction, biflagellate zoospores, and no periplasm in the oogonia and comprising the water molds \u2014 see diplanetic":[]
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My top piece of Geneva watch week, by some margin, was the Chopard Full Strike, now offered in a full sapphire case. \u2014 Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report , 6 June 2022",
"The Cvstos Re-Belle is powered by the CVS 882 self-winding mechanical caliber that is also visible via a transparent sapphire case back. \u2014 Roberta Naas, Forbes , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The bride kept her makeup natural, and limited her jewelry to simple blue sapphire drop earrings. \u2014 Alexandra Macon, Vogue , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Most famously, Prince William proposed to Kate with the sapphire and diamond engagement ring that belonged to Princess Diana, and Kate is rarely seen without the piece. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"In addition, sapphire and diamonds earrings by Indian high-jewelry artist, Bhagat, achieved $126,000, more than double its high estimate. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Kate had additionally accessorized with sapphire -and-diamond earrings that had once belonged to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 June 2022",
"Her hair was pulled back for the occasion, showing off what appear to be her diamond and sapphire earrings. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 2 June 2022",
"The festive mood remains, thanks to the permanent display of icons like the Star of India sapphire and the 632-carat Patricia Emerald alongside never-before-seen specimens like the Subway Garnet (a 9-pound stone found under 35th Street in 1885). \u2014 Leena Kim And Olivia Hosken, Town & Country , 17 May 2022"
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"Middle English safir , from Anglo-French, from Latin sapphirus , from Greek sappheiros , perhaps of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew sapp\u012br sapphire":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a nonsugar portion of a saponin that is typically obtained by hydrolysis, has either a complex terpenoid or a steroidal structure, and in the latter case forms a practicable starting point in the synthesis of steroid hormones":[]
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"\u02ccsa-p\u0259-\u02c8je-n\u0259n",
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"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-j\u0259-n\u0259n",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary sapo nin + -genin (compound formed from another compound)":""
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"Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin sapinus, sappinus , of Gaulish origin; akin to Welsh syb-wydd fir, Cornish sib-nit silver fir; akin to Old Slavic sok\u016d sap":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-120614"
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": a genus (the type of the family Saprolegniaceae of the order Saprolegniales) of fungi having a stout tubular multinucleate much-branched thallus without constrictions, producing, dimorphic zoospores, growing in water chiefly on plant debris and animal remains, and including one form ( S. ferax ) that attacks living fish, tadpoles, and spawn and causes the white fungus disease":[],
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"New Latin, from sapr- + Greek legnon border + New Latin -ia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-124316"
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"definitions":{
": transpiration stream":[]
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"\u02c8saf-ik"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Throughout the sapphic new clip, Kehlani and Shake (known off-stage as Danielle Balbuena) are shown in varying intimate vignettes amidst the backdrop of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 25 May 2022",
"The 26-year-old actor's shirtless look spawned endless takes, many of them focusing on the sapphic undertone of his ensemble: Our bad! \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But also, specifically more sapphic Christmas stories. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In You is a novella-length small-town, sapphic , friends-to-lovers story. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Cruz plays opposite Milena Smit in the sapphic film about two women bonded by motherhood and tragedy. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Feb. 2022",
"However, Alex did not have her sapphic happily ever after. \u2014 Gabriela Ramos Tav\u00e1rez, refinery29.com , 13 Jan. 2022",
"From daunting media depictions of sapphic heartbreak through to familial and societal homophobia, there are lots of reasons why lesbian breakups can be particularly difficult or isolating. \u2014 Amelia Abraham, refinery29.com , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Wonder Woman\u2019s new sapphic romance is part of an explosion of LGBTQ representation among comic books characters over the past several years \u2014 both on the page and the screen. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Dec. 2021"
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"1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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": of, causing, or resulting from putrefaction":[]
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"\u02ccsa-pr\u0259-\u02c8je-nik",
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"New Latin, from Sapindus , type genus + -aceae":""
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"noun"
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": the biblical books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticle of Canticles, Wisdom, and Ecclesiasticus":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Such wounds usually do not knit back together, even if the branch is secured back into place; the tissues that the interrupted sapwood kept alive will dry out and die on the growth past the break. \u2014 Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The discoloration extends into the tissue as far as the sapwood , which contains the functioning vascular tissue. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Use a water repellent on all exterior redwood, especially for sapwood -containing grades. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 29 May 2021",
"There are also grades available containing some sapwood , which will be a bit cheaper. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 29 May 2021",
"Researchers have successfully used a 1-cubic-inch block of pine sapwood as a water filter. \u2014 Popular Science , 2 Nov. 2020",
"The sapwood \u2019s structure already performs a filtering action in the living wood, screening out air bubbles from the tree sap. \u2014 Popular Science , 2 Nov. 2020",
"First, the woodpeckers drill through the resinous sapwood , stopping occasionally to let the sap build up on the exterior, which forms a protective plate around the two-to-three-inch-wide entry hole. \u2014 National Geographic , 17 Sep. 2020",
"The construction-common and deck-common grades of redwood decking are both streaked with sapwood and contain knots. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 7 June 2020"
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"1791, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a discoloration in newly sawn sapwood due to oxidizing enzymes \u2014 compare blue stain":[]
"after Edward Sapir \u20201939 & Benjamin Lee Whorf \u20201941 American linguists":""
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": a property (as bitterness) affecting the sense of taste : savor , flavor":[]
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"noun"
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": resembling or having the qualities of soap":[]
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"New Latin saponaceus , from Latin sapon-, sapo soap, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English s\u0101pe soap":""
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"1710, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u2014 Joseph Frank",
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"\u2014 V. J. Bourke"
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"contraction of saprobiont":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202454"
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"noun"
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"\"",
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"earlier sapote , from Spanish zapote , from Nahuatl tzapotl":"Noun",
"New Latin, from Spanish zapote":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202620"
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": chicle obtained from the sapodilla":[]
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"definitions":{
": a decorated sailboat of Sulu Archipelago":[]
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"Late Latin saporosus , from Latin sapor savor + -osus -ose":""
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"adjective",
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": to undergo saponifying":[]
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"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4n-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although rare to find, cerebral tissues found in archaeological discoveries have saponified , the process by which triglycerides turn into glycerol and fatty acid salts, or soap. \u2014 Fox News , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Beauty products include deodorant cream made with local California sagebrush and arrowroot, as well as the cleansing version of your favorite latte: a golden milk soap saponified with raw goat milk, turmeric, cinnamon, black pepper, and ginger. \u2014 Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Made out of a formula that was discovered loosely placed in an old New England Cookbook, this all-natural shampoo bar is made of just three ingredients: saponified olive oil, coconut oil, and castor oil. \u2014 Popular Science , 29 Jan. 2020"
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"French saponifier , from Latin sapon-, sapo":""
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": a genus of Old World herbs (family Caryophyllaceae) having large flowers with a tubular or gibbous calyx, five clawed petals, and a 4-valved capsular fruit \u2014 see soapwort":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-213218"
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": the act, process, or result of making soap : conversion into soap":[]
"The mixture prompts a chemical reaction called saponification . \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Oct. 2021",
"During the saponification process, the body\u2019s fatty acids turn into a waxy, soap-like compound that covers the corpse and prevents putrefaction. \u2014 Oscar Urbiola, National Geographic , 29 Oct. 2019",
"When combined, the reaction is called ' saponification '. \u2014 Meghan Caudill, Good Housekeeping , 8 Jan. 2018",
"This allows the soap to finish saponification and for all the excess water to evaporate. \u2014 Meghan Caudill, Good Housekeeping , 8 Jan. 2018",
"In a process called saponification , an alkali is used to cause changes in animal or vegetable fats, leaving behind soap and glycerol. \u2014 C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times , 6 Apr. 2018",
"In 2011, Joel Ducoste of North Carolina State University and his team reported that the same process that can turn lard into soap, called saponification , happens in sewer grease if calcium\u2019s around. \u2014 Erika Engelhaupt, National Geographic , 16 Aug. 2017",
"That's because typical biodiesel processing uses lye, which turns into soap when it's combined with highly fatty oils in a reaction called saponification , Hood said. \u2014 Brittany Crocker, USA TODAY , 10 Aug. 2017",
"In other words, the saponification had turned them soap-like. \u2014 Julia Jones, CNN , 14 July 2017"
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"native name in the Philippines":""
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"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4n-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although rare to find, cerebral tissues found in archaeological discoveries have saponified , the process by which triglycerides turn into glycerol and fatty acid salts, or soap. \u2014 Fox News , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Beauty products include deodorant cream made with local California sagebrush and arrowroot, as well as the cleansing version of your favorite latte: a golden milk soap saponified with raw goat milk, turmeric, cinnamon, black pepper, and ginger. \u2014 Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Made out of a formula that was discovered loosely placed in an old New England Cookbook, this all-natural shampoo bar is made of just three ingredients: saponified olive oil, coconut oil, and castor oil. \u2014 Popular Science , 29 Jan. 2020"
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"Malay sapi hutan wild cattle, from sapi cow + hutan forest, wild":""
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": the green- or yellow-skinned fruit of a tree ( Casimiroa edulis ) of the rue family with white or yellow flesh":[],
": the green-skinned fruit of a persimmon ( Diospyros digyna ) with brown or blackish flesh":[],
": the coarse brown-skinned fruit of a tree ( Pouteria sapota synonym Calocarpum sapota ) of the sapodilla family with orange or reddish flesh":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From white sapote requested by customers from New Zealand to the new restaurants coming soon, Saraga will keep bringing people from all over the world together, one product at a time. \u2014 Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Aug. 2021",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Do not bring fruit or cuttings (scions) from any citrus or citrus relatives such as finger limes, Buddha\u2019s hand, curry leaf or sapote to avoid transmission of huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2020"
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": an eastern Asian shrub ( Symplocos paniculata ) cultivated for its fragrant white flowers and bright blue fruits":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-010514"
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"saporific":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having the power to produce the sensation of taste":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6sap\u0259\u00a6rifik"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"New Latin saporificus , from Latin sapor savor + -i- + -ficus -fic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-032327"
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"sapphire gurnard":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": sapphirine gurnard":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-034039"
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"sapper":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a military specialist in field fortification work (such as sapping )":[],
": a military demolitions specialist":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-p\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Servicemen from a combined sapper team of the International Mine Action Centre under the Russian Armed Forces clear mines from the Mariupol Commercial Sea Port on May 23. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"At the same time, a local sapper unit of some 20 lightly armed combat engineers learns that a cease-fire has been declared and peace talks are underway. \u2014 Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Combat engineers\u2014known as pioneers or sappers in some armies\u2014are tasked with removing these obstacles on the battlefield and keeping the attack going. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 8 May 2019",
"Factor in a few other unlikely moisture- sappers \u2014Fusco says whitening toothpastes and long-last lipsticks also contribute to dryness\u2014and old-school salves simply might not cut it. \u2014 Jenna Rennert, Vogue , 31 Jan. 2019",
"Balloons attached to an explosive fuse, that were launched from Gaza, later wafted onto a trampoline used by Kibbutz children and was dealt with by sappers , Israeli police said. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 June 2018",
"The bomb, hidden in a pair of wire cutters, exploded as sappers neutralized it remotely. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2018",
"Group leader Maxim Buga said Loginov, a sapper by training, departed last fall to help the Syrian army clear mines. \u2014 Andrew Roth, Washington Post , 13 Feb. 2018",
"But they are vastly outnumbered in her account by those who signed up to go to the front as pilots, nurses, surgeons, tank drivers, scouts, traffic controllers, sappers and more. \u2014 Rebecca Reich, New York Times , 18 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-034740"
},
"saponification value":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a measure of the total free and combined acids especially in a fat, wax, or resin expressed as the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required for the complete saponification of one gram of substance":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-040813"
},
"sap flow":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": transpiration stream":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-055952"
},
"sap shield":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a steel plate used as a shield by a sapper or other advanced worker in places where earth thrown up is inadequate for defense":[]
": a body fluid (such as blood) essential to life, health, or vigor":[],
": bodily health and vigor":[],
": a foolish gullible person":[],
": blackjack , bludgeon":[],
": to drain or deprive of sap":[],
": to knock out with a sap":[],
": to proceed by digging a sap":[],
": to subvert by digging or eroding the substratum or foundation : undermine":[],
": to gradually diminish the supply or intensity of":[
"sapped her strength"
],
": to weaken or exhaust the energy or vitality of":[
"the illness sapped him of his stamina"
],
": to operate against or pierce by a sap":[],
": the extension of a trench to a point beneath an enemy's fortifications":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sap"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sap Verb (2) weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , undermine , sap , cripple , disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. a disease that weakens the body's defenses enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness. enfeebled by starvation debilitate suggests a less marked or more temporary impairment of strength or vitality. the debilitating effects of surgery undermine and sap suggest a weakening by something working surreptitiously and insidiously. a poor diet undermines your health drugs had sapped his ability to think cripple implies causing a serious loss of functioning power through damaging or removing an essential part or element. crippled by arthritis disable suggests bringing about impairment or limitation in a physical or mental ability. disabled by an injury sustained at work",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English s\u00e6p ; akin to Old High German saf sap":"Noun",
"Middle French sapper , from Old Italian zappare , from zappa hoe":"Verb",
"French sape , from saper":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1642, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-102250"
},
"saprogenesis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a part of the life cycle during which a pathogenic organism is living saprophytically or in a dormant state (as the ascospore stage of the apple scab fungus)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6sapr\u0259+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from sapr- + genesis":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-113441"
},
"saprodil":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a sapropel found in the Tertiary":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccdil"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from sapr- + -dil (from dilute )":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-114536"
},
"Sapygidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of parasitic wasps":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259\u02c8pij\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Sapyga , type genus (from Greek saos whole + pyg\u0113 rump) + -idae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-115438"
},
"sapphire quartz":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a rare blue variety of quartz":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-121047"
},
"saperda":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of long-horned beetles containing several whose larvae are destructive borers \u2014 see apple tree borer , linden borer":[],
": any beetle of the genus Saperda":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259\u02c8p\u0259rd\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, probably from Greek saperd\u0113s , a fish, probably perch":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-124437"
},
"sappare":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": cyanite":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-pe(\u0259)r",
"\u02c8sa\u02ccpa(a)(\u0259)r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, perhaps modification of English sapphire":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-131528"
},
"saponary":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": soapwort sense 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Saponaria":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-141250"
},
"sappanwood":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a red soluble brazilwood obtained from an East Indian tree ( Caesalpinia sappan )":[],
": a tree that yields sappanwood":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"sappanwood, sapanwood from Malay sapang + English wood; sappan from Malay sapang":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-142906"
},
"sapphirewing":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a South American hummingbird ( Pterophanes cyanopterus ) with blue wings":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-143752"
},
"sapeque":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a coin issued by France from the late 19th century for use in Indochina":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French sap\u00e8que , from Malay sa pek, sa pe , from sa one + pek, pe pie (currency)":""
": a tree (especially Entandrophragma cylindricum ) that produces sapele mahogany":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"sapele, sapeli from native name in West Africa":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-165353"
},
"saprophytically":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsap-r\u0259-\u02c8fit-ik",
"\u02ccsa-pr\u0259-\u02c8fi-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If that\u2019s the case, this could be a saprophytic fungus developing off that tissue. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 12 Nov. 2020",
"Your thumbnail photo is quite small and quite dark, but these are some type of saprophytic fungal growth that is present because the branches were dead. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 28 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1882, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-165713"
},
"sappy spot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a portion of wood or lumber showing the effects of decay":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173559"
},
"sapphiric":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having the nature of or resembling a sapphire":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259\u02c8firik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173758"
},
"sap-drawer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one of the small lower branches left on a topworked or frameworked tree to nourish the roots until new growth is well established":[]
