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Saponaceous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having the qualities of soap.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.

adj. Slippery, evasive

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Soapy; resembling soap; having the properties of soap. Saponaceous bodies are compounds of an acid and a base, and are in reality a kind of salts.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. resembling or having the qualities of soap

Word Usage

"An alkaline salt, for instance, gives to the front part an acid, styptic, salt, or sweet taste, but communicates to the posterior part a basic, bitter, or saponaceous taste."

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

soapy

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