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Noun- Any part of a plant possessing detergent properties and used as a substitute for soap.

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  • Foam from their muzzles drips onto the ground in fat drops, like a lather of amole (soap) When they run, they make a loud noise, as if stones were raining on the earth.
  • Another variety of yucca is the amole, or soap plant.
  • In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke.
  • I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.
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