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soap plant

noun

  1. a Californian plant, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, of the lily family, the bulb of which was used by the Indians as a soap.
  2. any of various other plants having parts that can be used as a soap.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of soap plant1

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
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The move to L.A., where she initially worked at the Silver Lake bookstore-gift shop Soap Plant & Wacko, reignited her passion for drawing.

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The show runs through Sept. 28 at the bastion of low-brow art housed in the Soap Plant -- also home to the bazaar of the bizarre: Wacko -- on Hollywood Boulevard.

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At 26, he was sent abroad to help take over a small soap plant in England, there got a good education in a diversity of problems: manufacturing, purchasing, delivery.

No fixed plan for the construction and equipment of a soap plant can be given.

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No soap plant is, therefore, fully equipped unless it has some method whereby the glycerine is recovered and the importance of recovering this product cannot be too strongly emphasized.

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