Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Saponaria, chiefly S. officinalis.
- noun Any plant of the order Sapindaceæ. Lindley.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A common plant (
Saponaria officinalis ) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called alsoBouncing Bet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
perennial herb of thegenus Saponaria.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Options included tar and glycerin, eggs, lime, fish oil and ashes, yucca, soapwort, and even oats or cornmeal, applied to absorb hair grease and soil before being brushed out.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Options included tar and glycerin, eggs, lime, fish oil and ashes, yucca, soapwort, and even oats or cornmeal, applied to absorb hair grease and soil before being brushed out.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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As for shampoo JUst take out Chemicals it works even better by using soapwort and yuccah in farmers would be glad to pay you to get rid of them as thay consider as weeds.
Enviroblog: Thank You For Buying Our Toxic Plastic Archives 2009
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They had fished in the afternoon-Ayla showed him how she tickled a fish out of the water by hand-then she found soapwort and they had bathed and washed their hair.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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Extract the soapwort by maceration or percolation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Various
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She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
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Next came carrying the couch grass, wild alum, and soapwort into the store-room.
The Harvester 1911
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It was common wayside "Bouncing Bet," but the Harvester called it "soapwort."
The Harvester 1911
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Next came carrying the couch grass, wild alum, and soapwort into the store-room.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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On the other hand I have sowed in vain the seeds of twisted specimens of the soapwort and the cleavewort (_Saponaria officinalis_ and _Galium Aparine_).
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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