"...mountain out of --- hill"

• Root used as a soap substitute
• Mexican agave
• Soap plant
• Root used as soap in Mexico
• Whack-___
• Root used as a substitute for soap
• Blind as ___
• Plant with detergent properties
• Soap substitute

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1831, from Mexican Spanish amole , from Nahuatl (Aztecan) amolli "soap-root."