soapberry : Idioms & Phrases

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soapberry family

  • noun chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins
    Sapindaceae; family Sapindaceae.
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soapberry tree

  • noun a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin
    soapberry.
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Soap"ber`ry tree`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
Webster 1913

soapberry vine

  • noun tendril-climbing vine
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