saponaria

English Thesaurus

1. mostly perennial Old World herbs (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caryophylloid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bouncing bess, bouncing bet, hedge pink, saponaria officinalis, soapwort,
definition	:	plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	carnation family, caryophyllaceae, family caryophyllaceae, pink family,
definition	:	large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) (noun.plant)