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What does saponaceous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word saponaceous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.
  2. Slippery, evasive
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If the matters digested with Spirit of Wine contain any saponaceous juices, the Spirit will take up those juices also.
Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
Then the process was repeated with the other hand, and a quart of the saponaceous mush was packed in the right hand pocket.
Its root is saponaceous, and is pounded into a pulp and used instead of soap by the natives.
He forms his fifth and last class of the saponaceous, saccharine, and concrete or thick juices of vegetables.
Wilberforce's smooth and slippery manner had led a contemporary to call him saponaceous, after the adjective from soap.

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