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GENUS SAPONARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly perennial Old World herbs
Synonyms:
genus Saponaria; Saponaria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Saponaria" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Saponaria"):
bouncing Bess; bouncing Bet; hedge pink; Saponaria officinalis; soapwort (plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised)
Holonyms ("genus Saponaria" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
