saponule

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French saponule, from Latin sapo (“soap”) + -onis.

Noun

saponule (plural saponules)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “saponule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• apolunes