The word "saprine" is spelled as /ˈsæprin/. The first sound /s/ is a voiceless alveolar fricative, followed by the short vowel sound /æ/. The next two sounds /pr/ form a consonant cluster with the bilabial plosive /p/ and the alveolar tap /ɾ/. The final sound /in/ is the short vowel sound /ɪ/ followed by the nasal consonant /n/. "Saprine" is used to describe something that contains sap or resembles sap, and is commonly used in the field of botany.
A ptomaine from the putrefying abdominal viscera.
A practical medical dictionary. By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop. Published 1920.