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saponaceous

[ sap-uh-ney-shuhs ]

adjective

  1. resembling soap; soapy.


saponaceous

/ ˌæəʊˈԱɪʃə /

adjective

  1. resembling soap; soapy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈԲdzܲԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • o·Բcdzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of saponaceous1

First recorded in 1700–10; from New Latin ō峦ܲ, equivalent to Latin ō- (stem of ō ) soap + -峦ܲ -aceous
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of saponaceous1

C18: from New Latin ō峦ܲ, from Latin ō soap
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Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.”

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The pericardium, like the pleura and the peritoneum, may be covered with a saponaceous film which is albuminous.

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This Medicine, which is termed in Latin, the Polygala Virginiana, is certainly rather of a saponaceous attenuating Quality, and betrays not any Marks of Acidity, being rather moderately acrid.

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The critic of the Back Alley Chronicle described me as giving a very 'saponaceous' rendering to my part.

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The yolk being a saponaceous compound, and not an oily matter as is generally supposed, it readily combines with the water and passes out of the wool.

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