Meanings
nounsoap tree (plural soap trees)
plural soap trees · alternative soap-tree · alternative soaptree
- Any of various trees whose leaves or fruit can be used as a substitute for soap.
- AustraliaA tree, Alphitonia excelsa, whose leaves are used as soap.
Kerry wandered off for a leak. She squatted behind a soap tree […].
2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 314
Synonyms & antonyms
nountall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
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