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Kyanite. [Written also sappar.]

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.

undum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem. of rubies, sapphires, and of pearlés white. Chaucer.

Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. "Sapphirine degree of hardness." Boyle.

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.

The quality of being sappy; juiciness.

See Sapodilla.

Abounding with sap; full of sap; juisy; succulent.

One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon dacaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.

Feeding on carrion.

Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

State or fact of being saprophytic.

A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

A saphead. [Low]

A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. [Written also sapucaya.] Sapucaia nut (Bot.), the seed of the sapucaia; -- called also paradise nut.

on any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from Heartwood.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).