What is "bouncing bet"

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.

n. (taxlink Saponaria officinalis species noshow=1), the common soapwort.

n. plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised [syn: soapwort, hedge pink, bouncing Bess, Saponaria officinalis]