Index of English words, starting with "sa"

(1) - Sarcotic (n.) A sarcotic medicine.
(2) - Sarcotic (a.) Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.

(1) - Sarcous (a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.

(1) - Sard (n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.

(1) - Sardine (n.) See Sardius.
(2) - Sardine (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.