NOUN
- plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
How To Use soapwort In A Sentence
- The glossy leaves of soapwort and finely textured carpets of Turkish speedwell stay green for most of the winter.
- I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.
- She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
- Both the roots and leaves of the Soapwort contain saponin and when stirred in water produce a lather which may be used for washing.
- Among ornamental plants, slugs and snails avoid foxgloves, many species in the daisy family, lavateras, hollyhocks, azaleas, Euphorbia, perennial Geraniums, mulleins and Stachys lanata, soapwort, lungwort and hibiscus.
- Both the roots and leaves of the Soapwort contain saponin and when stirred in water produce a lather which may be used for washing.
- The glossy leaves of soapwort and finely textured carpets of Turkish speedwell stay green for most of the winter.
- Pinks with lavender blooms spill around drifts of pink-flowered soapwort and rosy pink drumsticks of common thrift.
- The herb soapwort is excellent for this purpose.
- I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.