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SAPONARIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Saponaria mean?

• SAPONARIA (noun)
The noun SAPONARIA has 1 sense:

1. mostly perennial Old World herbs

Familiarity information: SAPONARIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SAPONARIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mostly perennial Old World herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Saponaria; Saponaria

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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