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- English Word Sappy Definition Musty; tainted.
- English Word Saprophagan Definition One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
- English Word Saprophagous Definition Feeding on carrion.
- English Word Saprophyte Definition Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
- English Word Saprophytic Definition Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
- English Word Sapsago Definition A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
- English Word Sapskull Definition A saphead.
- English Word Sapucaia Definition A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.
- English Word Sapwood Definition The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
- English Word Sarabaite Definition One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.
- English Word Saraband Definition A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.
- English Word Saracen Definition Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
- English Word Saracenic Definition Alt. of Saracenical
- English Word Saracenical Definition Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture.
- English Word Sarasin Definition See Sarrasin.
- English Word Saraswati Definition The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.
- English Word Sarcasm Definition A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
- English Word Sarcasmous Definition Sarcastic.
- English Word Sarcastic Definition Alt. of Sarcastical
- English Word Sarcastical Definition Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
- English Word Sarcastically Definition In a sarcastic manner.
- English Word Sarcel Definition One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
- English Word Sarceled Definition Cut through the middle.
- English Word Sarcelle Definition The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.
- English Word Sarcenet Definition A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.
- English Word Sarcin Definition Same as Hypoxanthin.
- English Word Sarcina Definition A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group.
- English Word Sarcle Definition To weed, or clear of weeds, with a hoe.
- English Word Sarco- Definition A combining form from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology.
- English Word Sarcobases Definition of Sarcobasis