资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Soapwort \Soap"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
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}.
Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray.
2. Excessive; big. ``A bouncing reckoning.'' --B. & Fl.
{Bouncing Bet} (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria
officinalis}). --Harper's Mag.
Fuller \Full"er\, n. [AS. fullere, fr. L. fullo. See {Full}, v.
t.]
One whose occupation is to full cloth.
{Fuller's earth}, a variety of clay, used in scouring and
cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease.
{Fuller's herb} (Bot.), the soapwort ({Saponaria
officinalis}), formerly used to remove stains from cloth.
{Fuller's thistle or weed} (Bot.), the teasel ({Dipsacus
fullonum}) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing
cloth. See {Teasel}.
资料来源 : WordNet®
Saponaria officinalis
n : plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and
leaves yielding a detergent when bruised [syn: {soapwort},
{hedge pink}, {bouncing Bet}, {bouncing Bess}]