jaboncillo

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   evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans

   SynonymsChina treefalse dogwoodchinaberrySapindus saponaria

   Broadersoapberry

   Part ofSapindus

Other forms of jaboncillo

plural

jaboncilloes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jaboncillo

What does jaboncillo mean?

jaboncillo means "evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans".

How many syllables are in jaboncillo?

jaboncillo has 4 syllables: ja-bon-cil-lo. The stress falls on "bon".

What is another word for jaboncillo?

Close synonyms include China tree, false dogwood, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jaboncillo a common word?

jaboncillo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.