soap tree

See also: soaptree

English

Alternative forms

• soap-tree, soaptree

Noun

soap tree (plural soap trees)

1. Any of various trees whose leaves or fruit can be used as a substitute for soap.
2. (Australia) A tree, Alphitonia excelsa, whose leaves are used as soap.
   • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 314:

     Kerry wandered off for a leak. She squatted behind a soap tree […] .

References

• soap tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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