noun
- Evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans.
- synonyms: false dogwood, jaboncillo, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria
- Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree.
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