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bouncing Bess
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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noun
see 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.