soap tree

See also: soaptree

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soap tree (plural soap trees)

  1. Any of various trees whose leaves or fruit can be used as a substitute for soap.
  2. (Australia) A tree, Alphitonia excelsa, whose leaves are used as soap.
    • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 314:
      Kerry wandered off for a leak. She squatted behind a soap tree […] .

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