NOUN
- evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans
How To Use Sapindus saponaria In A Sentence
- On the banks of the river of Cariaco we saw the Indian women washing their linen with the fruit of the parapara (Sapindus saponaria, or soap-berry), an operation said to be very injurious to the linen. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America