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    SAPONARIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Mostly perennial Old World herbsplay

    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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