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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the qualities of soap.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Soapy; resembling soap; having the properties of soap. Saponaceous bodies are compounds of an acid and a base, and are in reality a kind of salts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.
  • adjective Slippery, evasive

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling or having the qualities of soap

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sāpō, sāpōn-, hair dye; see saponin + –aceous.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin sapo, -onis, soap; of Teutonic origin, and akin to English soap. See Soap

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