Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The root, bulb, or another plant part of several chiefly western North American plants, such as certain species of Agave, Chlorogalum, and Yucca, used as a substitute for soap.
- noun A plant so used.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Mexican name for the roots of various species of plants which have detergent properties and are used as a substitute for soap.
- noun The name of several plants which furnish these roots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.), Sp. Amer. & Mex. Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of
Agave Americana ,Chlorogalum pomeridianum , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various parts of the
Agave (or similar) plants, when used assoap - noun Other Mexican and North American plants used as
soap
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Foam from their muzzles drips onto the ground in fat drops, like a lather of amole (soap) When they run, they make a loud noise, as if stones were raining on the earth.
The Aztecs speak - an Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico 2001
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Foam from their muzzles drips onto the ground in fat drops, like a lather of amole (soap) When they run, they make a loud noise, as if stones were raining on the earth.
The Aztecs speak - an Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico 2001
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Behind him came twenty or thirty more _penitentes_, the most I ever saw at once, some of them whipping themselves with big broad whips made out of _amole_.
The Blood of the Conquerors Harvey Fergusson
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All the way around the room, hanging from pegs driven into the wall, was a row of the broad heavy braided lashes of _amole_ weed, called
The Blood of the Conquerors Harvey Fergusson
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Yucca (Yucca sp.) — Both the datil (Y. baccata) and the amole (Y. glauca) grow in the Chaco area.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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If Donald were lost now, he could keep alive for days, because he would know what wood would make him a bow and how he could take amole fiber and braid a bow string and where he could make arrows and arrow points so that he could shoot game for food.
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At the right of her drawing Linda sketched in a fine specimen of monkey flower, deepening the yellow from the hearts of the amole lilies for the almost human little monkey faces.
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On the left one giant specimen of amole, reared from a base of exquisitely waving leaves, ran up the side of the drawing and broke into an airy and graceful head of gold-hearted white lilies.
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I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.
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When you reach the place where your left hand feels empty without a piece of bread in it, just butter up another amole and try it.
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