NOUN
- plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
How To Use Saponaria officinalis In A Sentence
- = -- The scales that are met with in some plants, either as excrescences from the petals, or as imperfect representatives of stamens or other organs, are occasionally staminoid; thus the scales of _Saponaria officinalis_, of _Silene_, Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants