"sapless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sap + -less.",
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      "form": "more sapless",
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          "ref": "1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, part III, stanza III, pages 190-191:",
          "text": "[…] Thou\nFor whose path the Atlantic’s level powers\nCleave themselves into chasms, while far below\nThe sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear\nThe sapless foliage of the ocean, know\nThy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,\nAnd tremble to despoil themselves: O, hear!",
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          "ref": "1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 13, in Elsie Venner, volume I, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 234:",
          "text": "Below, all their earthward-looking branches are sapless and shattered, splintered by the weight of many winters’ snows; above, they are still green and full of life, but their summits overtop all the deciduous trees around them, and in their companionship with heaven they are alone.",
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        "Lacking in sap."
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        "(of a plant) Lacking in sap."
      ],
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          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:",
          "text": "O young John Talbot! I did send for thee\nTo tutor thee in stratagems of war,\nThat Talbot’s name might be in thee revived\nWhen sapless age and weak unable limbs\nShould bring thy father to his drooping chair.",
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          "ref": "1638, George Herbert, “Nature”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, 5th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] T[homas] Buck, and R[oger] Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, →OCLC:",
          "text": "O smooth my rugged heart, and there\nEngrave thy rev’rend Law and fear:\nOr make a new one, since the old\nIs saplesse grown,\nAnd a much fitter stone\nTo hide my dust, then thee to hold.",
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        "Lacking vivacity."
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        "(figuratively, of a person etc.) Lacking vivacity."
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          "text": "[…] Thou\nFor whose path the Atlantic’s level powers\nCleave themselves into chasms, while far below\nThe sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear\nThe sapless foliage of the ocean, know\nThy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,\nAnd tremble to despoil themselves: O, hear!",
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          "text": "Below, all their earthward-looking branches are sapless and shattered, splintered by the weight of many winters’ snows; above, they are still green and full of life, but their summits overtop all the deciduous trees around them, and in their companionship with heaven they are alone.",
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        "(of a plant) Lacking in sap."
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          "text": "O young John Talbot! I did send for thee\nTo tutor thee in stratagems of war,\nThat Talbot’s name might be in thee revived\nWhen sapless age and weak unable limbs\nShould bring thy father to his drooping chair.",
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          "text": "O smooth my rugged heart, and there\nEngrave thy rev’rend Law and fear:\nOr make a new one, since the old\nIs saplesse grown,\nAnd a much fitter stone\nTo hide my dust, then thee to hold.",
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        "Lacking vivacity."
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