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  • English Word Saponifying Definition of Saponify
  • English Word Saponin Definition A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
  • English Word Saponite Definition A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.
  • English Word Saponul Definition A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
  • English Word Sapor Definition Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste.
  • English Word Saporific Definition Having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish.
  • English Word Saporosity Definition The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.
  • English Word Saporous Definition Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.
  • English Word Sapota Definition The sapodilla.
  • English Word Sapotaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceae) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.
  • English Word Sappan wood Definition Sapan wood.
  • English Word Sappare Definition Kyanite.
  • English Word Sapped Definition of Sap
  • English Word Sapper Definition One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
  • English Word Sapphic Definition Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
  • English Word Sapphic Definition Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
  • English Word Sapphic Definition A Sapphic verse.
  • English Word Sapphire Definition Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.
  • English Word Sapphire Definition The color of the gem; bright blue.
  • English Word Sapphire Definition Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.
  • English Word Sapphire Definition Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
  • English Word Sapphirine Definition Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.
  • English Word Sappho Definition Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
  • English Word Sappiness Definition The quality of being sappy; juiciness.
  • English Word Sapping Definition of Sap
  • English Word Sappodilla Definition See Sapodilla.
  • English Word Sappy Definition Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
  • English Word Sappy Definition Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
  • English Word Sappy Definition Weak in intellect.
  • English Word Sappy Definition Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.