soapwort, hedge pink, bouncing Bet, bouncing Bess, Saponaria officinalis
(noun) plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
Source: WordNet® 3.1
soapwort (countable and uncountable, plural soapworts)
Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria.
Source: Wiktionary
Soap"wort`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
