English > genus Saponaria: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | Mostly perennial Old World herbs. |
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Synonym | Saponaria |
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Member of | Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, carnation family, pink family | large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) |
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Members | soapwort, hedge pink, bouncing Bet, bouncing Bess, Saponaria officinalis | plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised |
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Broader | caryophylloid dicot genus | genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
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Spanish | genus saponaria, saponaria |
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Catalan | genus saponaria, saponaria, Saponària |
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