treesap

English

Noun

treesap (uncountable)

1. Uncommon spelling of tree sap.
   • 1973, Corrective and Social Psychiatry and Journal of Applied Behavior Therapy‎^[1], volume 19, page 30:

     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.”

   • 1975, J. Forbes Munro, Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889–1939‎^[2], →ISBN, page 112:

     Those possessed by the spirit in Kitombo were said to be able to eat poisonous berries and treesap.

   • 1975, William H. Howe, David L. Bauer, The Butterflies of North America‎^[3], →ISBN, page 80:

     Other species, such as those of Euptychia, are found sipping at leaking treesap, rotting fruit, muddy spots or on dung.

   • 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^[4], 1999, →ISBN, page 181:

     When 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.

   • 1990 February 1, Tom Fegely, “Snow fleas insects of mystery”, in The News Journal, page 75:

     They’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.

   • 2019, Jared Green, Santa: My Life and Times […], →ISBN, page 118:

     Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.