| sappy | 1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juisy; succulent. 2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. "When he had passed this weak and sapy age." (Hayward) 3. Weak in intellect. 4. <botany> Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting lagerly of, sapwood. Origin: From 1st Sap. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sapr- | See: sapro-. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sapraemia | Synonym: septicaemia. Origin: sapr-+ G. Haima, blood (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprists | Organic soils (mucks) in which most of the plant material is decomposed and the original constituents cannot be recognised, less than one-third of the fibres remain visible upon rubbing the material between the fingers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| sapro- | Sapr- Rotten, putrid, decayed. Origin: G. Sapros (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprobe | An organism that obtains its food directly from decaying organic material. (09 Oct 1997) |
| saprobic | Pertaining to a saprobe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprodontia | Synonym: dental caries. Origin: sapro-+ G. Odous, tooth (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprogen | An organism living on dead organic matter and causing the decay thereof. Origin: sapro-+ G. -gen, producing (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprogenic | Saprogenous Causing or resulting from decay. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprophagan | <zoology> One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon dacaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle. Origin: Gr. Rotten + to eat: cf. F. Saprophage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saprophagous | <zoology> Feeding on carrion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saprophilous | Thriving on decaying organic matter. Origin: sapro-+ G. Philos, fond (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprophyte | <microbiology> An organism whose nutrition involves uptake of dissolved organic material from decaying plant or animal matter. Origin: Gr. Phyton = plant (18 Nov 1997) |
| saprophytic | Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |