soapwort
IPA: sˈoʊpwɝt
noun
- Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria.
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Examples of "soapwort" in Sentences
- Thus it and the soapwort plant are safe to handle.
- Extract the soapwort by maceration or percolation.
- It was common wayside "Bouncing Bet," but the Harvester called it "soapwort."
- Next came carrying the couch grass, wild alum, and soapwort into the store-room.
- On the other hand I have sowed in vain the seeds of twisted specimens of the soapwort and the cleavewort (_Saponaria officinalis_ and _Galium Aparine_).
- They had fished in the afternoon-Ayla showed him how she tickled a fish out of the water by hand-then she found soapwort and they had bathed and washed their hair.
- As for shampoo JUst take out Chemicals it works even better by using soapwort and yuccah in farmers would be glad to pay you to get rid of them as thay consider as weeds.
- Options included tar and glycerin, eggs, lime, fish oil and ashes, yucca, soapwort, and even oats or cornmeal, applied to absorb hair grease and soil before being brushed out.
- She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
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