1
: a small shallow dish in which a cup is set at table
2
: something resembling a saucer especially in shape
especially
: flying saucer
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Purchase several resin or plastic plant saucers that can be switched out each morning so the birds have fresh water daily.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
Some would-be trappers started to leave saucers of whiskey in the nearby woods, hoping that drunk monkeys would be easier to capture—and, supposedly, the ploy worked.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
There was a spot out beyond my boat dock, no more than a city block offshore, where a goldenrod grub or a corn borer lowered through a hole in the ice into the dark water at the end of a nylon line was as sure to get results as a saucer of cream set in front of a hungry cat.
—Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
Cut the lower branches off the trunk to form your star or saucer magnolia into a tree shape.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
Some would-be trappers started to leave saucers of whiskey in the nearby woods, hoping that drunk monkeys would be easier to capture—and, supposedly, the ploy worked.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
There was a spot out beyond my boat dock, no more than a city block offshore, where a goldenrod grub or a corn borer lowered through a hole in the ice into the dark water at the end of a nylon line was as sure to get results as a saucer of cream set in front of a hungry cat.
—Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
Cut the lower branches off the trunk to form your star or saucer magnolia into a tree shape.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Saucer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saucer. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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saucer
noun
sau·cer
ˈsȯ-sər 
1
: a small round shallow dish in which a cup is set
2
: something like a saucer especially in shape
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