baby's breath
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
baby's breath (countable and uncountable, plural baby's breaths)
- A genus, Gypsophila, of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Europe, Asia and north Africa.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 304:
- A tumult erupts when the Major, in full dress uniform and pressing a corsage of orchids and baby's breath to his bosom, steps out on to the verandah […]
Translations[edit]
Gypsophila
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