noun
plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
• Syn: ↑soapwort, ↑hedge pink, ↑bouncing Bet, ↑Saponaria officinalis
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Saponaria, ↑genus Saponaria
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nounsee bouncing bet
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bouncing Bet or bouncing Bess,
a European plant of the pink family naturalized in the United States, growing wild by roadsides, etc., and having white or pink, often double flowers. It is a species of soapwort.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.