saponaceous

[sap-uh-ney-shuhs]

adjective

1. resembling soap; soapy.

saponaceous

/ ˌsæpəʊˈneɪʃəs /

adjective

1. resembling soap; soapy

Other Word Forms

• saponaceousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of saponaceous¹

First recorded in 1700–10; from New Latin sāpōnāceus, equivalent to Latin sāpōn- (stem of sāpō ) soap + -āceus -aceous

Word History and Origins

Origin of saponaceous¹

C18: from New Latin sāpōnāceus, from Latin sāpō _soap

Example Sentences

Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.”

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The pericardium, like the pleura and the peritoneum, may be covered with a saponaceous film which is albuminous.

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This Medicine, which is termed in Latin, the Polygala Virginiana, is certainly rather of a saponaceous attenuating Quality, and betrays not any Marks of Acidity, being rather moderately acrid.

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The critic of the Back Alley Chronicle described me as giving a very 'saponaceous' rendering to my part.

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The yolk being a saponaceous compound, and not an oily matter as is generally supposed, it readily combines with the water and passes out of the wool.

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Related Words

• buttery 
• creamy 
• oiled 
• slippery 
• waxy