Contextualizebeta

saponaceous

adj

Etymology

From Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -aceous.

  1. derived from sāpō

Definitions

  1. Resembling soap

    Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.

  2. Slippery

    Slippery; evasive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for saponaceous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA