Soapwort - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: soapwortBruisewort
A plant supposed to heal bruises as the true daisy the soapwort and the comfrey...
cow cockle
a European annual Vaccaria hispanica with pale rose colored flowers cultivated flower or self sown grainfield weed introduced in North America sometimes classified as a soapwort...
cowherb
a European annual with pale rose colored flowers cultivated flower or self sown grainfield weed introduced in North America sometimes classified as a soapwort also called the cow cockle...
Saponin
A poisonous glucoside found in many plants as in the root of soapwort Saponaria in the bark of soap bark Quillaia etc It is extracted as a white amorphous powder which occasions a soapy lather in solution and produces a local anaeligsthesia Formerly called also struthiin quillaiin senegin polygalic acid etc By extension any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type...
Soapwort
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...
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