soap plant
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any plant of the genus Chlorogalum, endemic to western North America, especially Chlorogalum pomeridianum, the most widespread species.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see soap, plant.
Example Sentences
- "The trail, which winds through deerweed, soap plant, and mallow, is tough to miss in the summer and early fall, but may be overgrown with grass and wildflowers during the spring."
- "The Karok, a California tribe, pounded the bulbs of the soap plant (Chlorogalum pomerindianum) to clean both clothing and buckskin blankets while the Mahuna used them whole as soap bars."
- "Volunteers often occur around established plants, creating open colonies of soap plant in the wild and in gardens."
- "For example, bleach production was moved to P&G's soap plant from the Kansas City Clorox plant to destroy the union there, according to a former officer."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
narrowleaf soap plant
Red Hills soap plant
smallflower soap plant
wavy-leafed soap plant
purple amole