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Saponin
- noun - any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers
Saponul
- - A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
Sapotes
- noun - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
- tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
Sappers
- noun - a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
- a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
- The lowest rank of a soldier in the (British) Royal Engineers. Commonly equivalent to a Private.
Sapphic
- adjective - of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman
- a meter used by Sappho and named after her
Sappier
- adjective - abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"
- ludicrous, foolish;
Sapping
- verb - deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- excavate the earth beneath
Sapporo
- noun - a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido