Sapindus drumondii
- noun
- Specialized
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Sapindus drumondii
- Native peoples used the fruit of Sapindus drumondii as a natural soap.
Examples
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You can find Sapindus drumondii growing in dry, rocky soils across Texas and Oklahoma.
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The leaves of the Sapindus drumondii turn bright yellow in the fall.
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The Sapindus drumondii tree grows well in arid climates.
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Have you ever seen a Sapindus drumondii in bloom?
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Native peoples used the fruit of Sapindus drumondii as a natural soap.
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You can find Sapindus drumondii growing in dry, rocky soils across Texas and Oklahoma.
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The Sapindus drumondii tree is often admired for its beautiful, pulpy fruit.
Synonyms
A tree from the southwestern United States that loses its leaves and has pulpy fruit containing a natural soap-like substance
A tree from the southwestern United States that loses its leaves each year and has fruit used to make soap
A tree or its fruit from warm countries that people use as natural soap
A tree that makes berries used as natural soap
A tree or shrub that makes berries used as natural soap
A group of trees and shrubs with fruits called soapberries used as natural soap
Surface Forms
Morphology
Sapindus + drumondii
This is a Linnaean binomial combining the genus name 'Sapindus' with the specific epithet 'drumondii', so a learner who knows 'Sapindus' can infer it denotes a kind of Sapindus tree. However, 'drumondii' is a Latinized proper epithet with no lexical meaning in English and does not convey additional predictable semantic content about the plant, so the full referent is not derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Sapindus drumondii begins with Sapindus, a word linked to 'soap' because the tree's fruit makes a soapy foam and people used it as a natural soap, and the second part, drumondii, is the name of the person who first collected or named the tree, so the whole name helps you remember it as the soap-producing tree.
