saponaceous

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Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.”

From Washington Post

The pericardium, like the pleura and the peritoneum, may be covered with a saponaceous film which is albuminous.

From Project Gutenberg

This Medicine, which is termed in Latin, the Polygala Virginiana, is certainly rather of a saponaceous attenuating Quality, and betrays not any Marks of Acidity, being rather moderately acrid.

From Project Gutenberg

The critic of the Back Alley Chronicle described me as giving a very 'saponaceous' rendering to my part.

From Project Gutenberg

The yolk being a saponaceous compound, and not an oily matter as is generally supposed, it readily combines with the water and passes out of the wool.

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