Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of sap; containing sap; sappy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Abounding in sap; sappy.

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  • adjective poetic Full of sap.

Etymologies

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sap +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • Must take a sip of coffee, the sapful spunk, then move on: my road is not thorny, that's for Jesus People, my road is smooth, the surface specious and nogood fumes effluence from it.

    Gyoza Express 2010

  • Long, soft, sapful shoots hang limp and faint, and seemingly sorrowful, as tipplers from over-indulgence, when the sun disperses the low-hanging clouds.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • The dark compactness of the jungle, the steadfast but disorderly array of the forest, the blotches of verdant grass, the fringe of yellow-flowered hibiscus and the sapful native cabbage, give way in turn to the greys and yellows of the sand in alternate bands.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The dark compactness of the jungle, the steadfast but disorderly array of the forest, the blotches of verdant grass, the fringe of yellow-flowered hibiscus and the sapful native cabbage, give way in turn to the greys and yellows of the sand in alternate bands.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

  • Scents may vary as the river's fringe; but only a delicate blend is recognised -- the breathings of honey-secreting flowers and of sapful plants free from all uncleanliness.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • She would have liked to be of service to the weeds vegetating beside the paths, to slay herself there so that from her flesh some huge greenery might spring, lofty and sapful, laden with birds at May-time, and passionately caressed by the sun.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • The ground was ploughed, and the seed sank beneath it from the sower's hand in spring; the earth was soft and sapful to a sufficient depth, and the roots of the springing corn found ample room to range in; the soil was clean, and its fatness, not shared by usurping weeds, went all to the nourishment of the sown seed: therefore in the balmy air and under the beaming sun it is ripe to-day, and ready to fill the reaper's bosom.

    The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

  • Scents may vary as the river’s fringe; but only a delicate blend is recognised — the breathings of honey-secreting flowers and of sapful plants free from all uncleanliness.

    Tropic Days 2003

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