English

Noun

baby's breath ‎(plural baby's breaths)

1. 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 2006, p. 304:

     A tumult erupts when the Major, in full dress uniform and pressing a corsage of rchids and baby's breath to his bosom, steps out on to the verandah […].

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