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SAPONARIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mostly perennial Old World herbs

Synonyms:

genus Saponaria; Saponaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Saponaria" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("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))

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