'Sap tube' definitions:
Definition of 'Sap tube'
From: GCIDE
- Sap \Sap\, n. [AS. saep; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid, Sapient.]
- 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus.
- Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
- Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.
- Sap sucker (Zool.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker ({Sphyrapicus varius}) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
- Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap. [1913 Webster]