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ˈsæp ə nɪnsaponin

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. saponinnoun

    any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers

Wiktionary

  1. saponinnoun

    Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth.

Wikipedia

  1. Saponin

    Saponins (Latin "sapon", soap + "-in", one of), also selectively referred to as triterpene glycosides, are bitter-tasting usually toxic plant-derived organic chemicals that have a foamy quality when agitated in water. They are widely distributed but found particularly in soapwort (genus Saponaria), a flowering plant, the soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria) and soybeans (Glycine max L.). They are used in soaps, medicinals, fire extinguishers, speciously as dietary supplements, for synthesis of steroids, and in carbonated beverages (the head on a mug of root beer). Structurally, they are glycosides, sugars bonded to another organic molecule, usually a steroid or triterpene, a steroid building block. Saponins are both water and fat soluble, which gives them their useful soap properties. Some examples of these chemicals are glycyrrhizin, licorice flavoring; and quillaia (alt. quillaja), a bark extract used in beverages.

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  1. saponin

    Saponin is a type of chemical compound found in particular abundance in various plant species. They have soap-like qualities, which give them a bitter taste that discourages insects and microbes. They can form a foam when shaken in aqueous solutions, and can be poisonous to cold-blooded animals and fish. Saponins are also used in medicine due to their expectorant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Saponinnoun

    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 anaesthesia. 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

  2. Etymology: [L. sapo, -onis soap: cf. F. saponine.]

Wikidata

  1. Saponin

    Saponins are a class of chemical compounds, one of many secondary metabolites found in natural sources, with saponins found in particular abundance in various plant species. More specifically, they are amphipathic glycosides grouped, in terms of phenomenology, by the soap-like foaming they produce when shaken in aqueous solutions, and, in terms of structure, by their composition of one or more hydrophilic glycoside moieties combined with a lipophilic triterpene derivative.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of saponin in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of saponin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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