Search Result for "sapindus_saponaria":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans;
[syn: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Soapberry tree \Soap"ber`ry tree`\ (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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Sapindus saponaria n 1: evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans [syn: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria]