sap
noun/sæp/
/sæp/
- [uncountable] the liquid in a plant or tree that carries food to all its parts
- Maple syrup is made from sap extracted from the sugar maple tree.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- plant
- tree
- collect
- extract
- flow
- rise
- [countable] (especially North American English, informal) a stupid person that you can easily trick, or treat unfairly
- The poor sap never knew what was going on behind his back.
Word Originnoun sense 1 Old English sæp, probably of Germanic origin. The verb (dating from the mid 18th cent.) is often interpreted as a figurative use of the notion “drain the sap from”, but is derived originally from the verb sap, in the sense ‘undermine’. noun sense 2 early 19th cent.: abbreviation of dialect sapskull ‘person with a head like sapwood’, from sap (in the sense ‘sapwood’) + skull.
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