SAPONARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saponaria mean? 

• SAPONARIA (noun)
  The noun SAPONARIA has 1 sense:

1. mostly perennial Old World herbs

  Familiarity information: SAPONARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAPONARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly perennial Old World herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Saponaria; Saponaria

Hypernyms ("Saponaria" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Saponaria"):

bouncing Bess; bouncing Bet; hedge pink; Saponaria officinalis; soapwort (plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised)

Holonyms ("Saponaria" is a member of...):

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

 Context examples 

An immunoconjugate of the anti-dopamine-b-hydroxylase monoclonal antibody covalently linked to the ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) saporin derived from Saponaria officinalis.

(Anti-Dopamine-b-Hydroxylase Monoclonal Antibody-Saporin, NCI Thesaurus)

A purified, natural saponin isolated from the soapbark tree Quillaja saponaria Molina with potential immunoadjuvant activity.

(Immunoadjuvant OPT-821, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine based on the immunogenic ganglioside GM2, The GM2-KLH Vaccine/QS21 vaccine consists of GM2 conjugated with KLH keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), a potent immunostimulant, and is admixed with the adjuvant QS21, a saponin fraction extracted from the bark of the South American tree Quillaja saponaria Molina.

(GM2-KLH Vaccine/QS21, NCI Thesaurus)