Usage examples (33)

• She prepared a saponaceous looking soup for dinner.
• Caustic potash, as we already observed, acts on the skin, and animal fibre, in virtue of its attraction for water and oil, and converts all animal matter into a kind of...
• The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.
• It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious.