sap vs sugar cane

sap

noun
  • The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 

  • A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. 

  • The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. 

  • Vitality. 

  • A naive person; a simpleton 

  • Any juice. 

  • A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. 

verb
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. 

  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. 

  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. 

  • To gradually weaken. 

  • To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). 

  • To exhaust the vitality of. 

  • To pierce with saps. 

  • To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). 

sugar cane

noun
  • A tropical grass of the genus Saccharum (especially the species Saccharum officinarum, including hybrids) having stout, fibrous, jointed stalks, the sap of which is a source of sugar. 

  • A candy cane, an edible candy in the shape of a cane. 

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