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Definition of Soapworts
1. soapwort [n] - See also: soapwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soapworts
Literary usage of Soapworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Study Plants: Or, Introduction to Botany, Being an Illustrated Flora by Alphonso Wood (1882)
"E, or soapworts. Their affinities are approximate rather than identical, ...
The soapworts comprehend 73 genera, 650 species, divided into four suborders, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... very large number of plants, the chief of which arc the Quillaia saponaria,
Polygala senega, sarsaparilla, and others, known collectively as soapworts. ..."
3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"... INDIAN soapworts. Trees, shrubs, or rarely herbs, with simple or compound,
alternate or opposite l*aves. flowers mostly unsymmetrical and irregular ..."
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