Meanings
- uncommonuncountableUncommon form of tree sap.
Those possessed by the spirit in Kitombo were said to be able to eat poisonous berries and treesap.
1975, J. Forbes Munro, Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889–1939, →ISBN, page 1125 more examples
From fruits, berries, flowers, honey, treesap, milk, from almost any plant or substance containing carbohydrate and sugar, primitive man made alcohol and drank it to “forget his sorrows.”
1973, Corrective and Social Psychiatry and Journal of Applied Behavior Therapy, volume 19, page 30Other species, such as those of Euptychia, are found sipping at leaking treesap, rotting fruit, muddy spots or on dung.
1975, William H. Howe, David L. Bauer, The Butterflies of North America, →ISBN, page 80When the last mine closed / and its timbers turned pliable as treesap, / the town began to tilt, to slide / back into its past like a wave.
1979, Robert Wrigley, The Sinking of Clay City; republished as “The Sinking of Clay City”, in Craig Wollner, editor, A Richer Harvest: An Anthology of Work in the Pacific Northwest, 1999, →ISBN, page 181They’re present year-round, often swarming at the bases of trees in late winter and feeding on treesap released by a trunk scar or broken branch.
1990 February 1, Tom Fegely, “Snow fleas insects of mystery”, in The News Journal, page 75Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.
2019, Jared Green, Santa: My Life and Times […], →ISBN, page 118
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