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n. - Tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Grew up on it, in fact, long before the primary ingredient for flavor began to be soap-weed.
  • At length he swung Button in an easy lope toward what looked to be a bunch of soap-weed in the middle distance.
  • Each excrescence on the plain his half-squinted eyes noticed, and with instant skill relegated to its proper category of soap-weed, mesquite, cactus.
  • Moreover, while the soap-weed wash at the fisherman's hut had whitened his skin, his face and hands still retained a smoky pallor which would take some time to wear off.
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