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soap trees

soap trees is the plural of soap tree.

Meaning of soap tree

Noun

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.
    • Kerry wandered off for a leak. She squatted behind a soap tree […].2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 314

Questions about soap trees

What is soap trees the plural of?
Soap trees is the plural of soap tree.

Words near soap trees in the dictionary

  1. soap shaker
  2. soap suds
  3. soap test
  4. soap tests
  5. soap tree
  6. soap trees
  7. soap up
  8. soap-bubble
  9. soap-bubbles
  10. soap-dispenser
  11. soap-dispensers

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