sap
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Other meanings
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "sæp" (juice, sap).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sap” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.