sapless

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Clark, who called Congress “the sapless branch,” belonged to the growing and restive corps of liberal Democrats who found the Senate less the genteel club that White described than a mildewed establishment.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015

These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

So devitalised and neurasthenic are many of our pretty young girls, that their flowerlike faces, topping over-tall and undeveloped bodies, suggest delicate blossoms crowning long attenuated, sapless stems.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella