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Definition of Jaboncillo
1. Noun. Evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans.
Generic synonyms: Soapberry, Soapberry Tree
Group relationships: Genus Sapindus, Sapindus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jaboncillo
Literary usage of Jaboncillo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Up the Amazon and Madeira Rivers: Through Bolivia and Peru by Edward Davis Mathews (1879)
"... Cuestas jaboncillo and Masa-Cruz—Canto Molino—Thermal spring of Huata —First
view of Sucre. FROM Cochabamba, the shortest route across the republic to ..."
2. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of Londonby Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"J. jaboncillo, a river of Central America, joining the Tabasco, xv. 251, 256.
Jackman Sound, North America, description of, xii. 17, 18. ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1845)
"... of the Arroyo de jaboncillo, are covered for some distance back with lofty
trees, between which there grows a thicket of creeping plants and underwood, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Session of the American Mining Congress, El by American Mining Congress (1906)
"Of notable occurrence in these limestones is a somewhat soft yellowish- gray clay
known locally as jaboncillo. It is to be regarded as an alteration product ..."
5. The United States Vs. Andres Castillero: New Almaden : Transcript of the Record by Andrés Castillero (1860)
"It is irregularly divided by many vertical fissures and the jaboncillo contains
fragments of quartz enveloped in the same. The cinnabar gradually penetrates ..."
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