A plant, especially a desert plant, that produces a soapy substance used for cleaning or washing.
From Spanish amole, from Nahuatl (Aztec language) amolli. Spanish colonizers encountered this cleaning plant in Mexico and borrowed the word.
Before commercial soap, Mexican and American desert communities used amole plants as nature's shampoo and detergent—some Native Americans and settlers still harvest it today, proving that perfect laundry solution has been growing in deserts for thousands of years.
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