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SAPONINS

"SAPONINS" is a plural of: saponin.


Specialty Definition: SAPONINS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A class of substances that have foaming properties in solution:found in a variety of plants, including a few trees. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

Sapogenin glycosides. A type of glycoside widely distributed in plants. Each consists of a sapogenin as the aglycon moiety, and a sugar. The sapogenin may be a steroid or a triterpene and the sugar may be glucose, galactose, a pentose, or a methylpentose. Sapogenins are poisonous towards the lower forms of life and are powerful hemolytics when injected into the blood stream able to dissolve red blood cells at even extreme dilutions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SAPONINS

English words defined with "SAPONINS": family SapindaceaeSapindaceae, soapberry family. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SAPONINS": Oleanolic Acid. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SAPONINS

"SAPONINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAPONINS" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SAPONINS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

furastanolic saponins

79

saponins

25

steroidal saponins

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SAPONINS

Language Translations for "SAPONINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

saponin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

saponinen, saponien. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saponiini. (various references)

   

French

  

saponine. (various references)

   

German

  

Saponin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαπωνίνες. (various references)

   

Italian

  

saponina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aponinssay

   

Portuguese

  

saponima. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

saponina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

saponiner. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SAPONINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-n-n-o-p-s-s"

-1 letter: inspans, nasions, passion, sannops, saponin.

-2 letters: anions, inspan, nasion, opsins, pianos, pinnas, pinons, sannop.

-3 letters: anion, apsis, aspis, nipas, nonas, oasis, opsin, ossia, pains, piano, pians, pinas, pinna, pinon, pions, pisos, psoai, psoas, sains, sasin, snaps, snips, soaps, spans, spins.

-4 letters: ains, anis, anon, asps, inns, ions, nans, naoi, naos, naps, nipa, nips, nona.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-n-o-p-s-s"
 

+1 letter: saponines.

 

+2 letters: expansions, nonpassive, plainsongs, sapogenins, sopraninos.

 

+3 letters: nonaspirins, nonplastics, standpoints, supinations, transposing.

 

+4 letters: calypsonians, dispensation, encompassing, expansionism, expansionist, impassioning, inspirations, inspissation, nonhospitals, nonpartisans, nonpasserine, parkinsonism, pensionaries, personations, plasminogens, snapshotting, supernations, syncopations.

 

+5 letters: antinepotisms, apprehensions, compensations, conspirations, constipations, dispensations, expansionisms, expansionists, inspissations, isoprenalines, nonphysicians, nonspecialist, parkinsonisms, personalising, plastocyanins, presentations, spontaneities, strophanthins, transposition, unimpassioned.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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