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saponaceous
adjective as in oily
Example Sentences
Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.”
The pericardium, like the pleura and the peritoneum, may be covered with a saponaceous film which is albuminous.
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.
The critic of the Back Alley Chronicle described me as giving a very 'saponaceous' rendering to my part.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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