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sapindus |
sapindus drumondii |
sapindus marginatus |
sapindus saponaria |
sapir |
sapless
| sapling
| sapodilla
| sapodilla family
| sapodilla plum
| sapodilla tree
sapless
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sapless has 2 senses
- sapless(s = adj.all) debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, weak, weakly - lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
- sapless(s = adj.all) Array - destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"
CIDE DICTIONARY
sapless, a.
- Destitute of sap; not juicy. [1913 Webster]
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Fig. : Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. Lowell. [1913 Webster]"Now sapless on the verge of death he stands." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sapless
Saharan, anemic, anhydrous, arid, asthenic, athirst, bland, bloodless, bone-dry, chicken, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desert, dilute, diluted, driveling, drooping, droopy, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dull, dusty, effete, etiolated, fade, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flavorless, floppy, gone, gruelly, gutless, high and dry, imbecile, impotent, inane, indifferent, innocuous, insipid, jejune, juiceless, languid, languorous, like parchment, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, mild, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, pappy, pithless, pooped, powerless, pulpy, rubbery, sandy, savorless, sinewless, slack, soft, spiceless, spineless, stale, strengthless, tasteless, thin, thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unflavored, unhardened, unnerved, unsavory, unstrung, unwatered, vapid, washy, watered, watered-down, waterless, watery, weak, weakly, wishy-washyROGET THESAURUS
sapless
Dryness
N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.
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