Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Gypsophila in the pink family, having small white or pink flowers and including baby's breath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Caryophyllaceæ, allied to the pinks (Dianthus), of about 50 species, chiefly of the Mediterranean region.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
flowering plants , of the genusGypsophila , that have a profusion of small pink or whiteflowers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Zanele presented the Queen with a bouquet of pink roses and white gypsophila as she stepped off the British Airways flight which brought her from London.
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In the middle of the summer it was one tangled mass of lilies, delphinium, phlox and gypsophila, their perfume filling the whole garden.
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For fine white flowers we have the showy achilleas in variety and gypsophila paniculata, called baby breath as a common name.
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I had almost given up the double baby breath (gypsophila paniculata, fl. pl.), but finally it came all the way down the bed, about every five or six feet, between the delphinium and the phlox.
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"And in a room you would select a vase that would harmonize with the coloring," added Margaret, who was mixing sweetpeas in loose bunches with feathery gypsophila.
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They queued for appointments to have spectacular couture headdresses especially made for them out of hydrangeas, gypsophila, daisies, fake roses, tinsel and toy parts by Kirchhoff, Meadham and Mazhar.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I have hydrangea flower-heads, hypericum berries and even some of my old gypsophila drying off in the shed to use in swags, wreaths and other Christmas arrangements.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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They queued for appointments to have spectacular couture headdresses especially made for them out of hydrangeas, gypsophila, daisies, fake roses, tinsel and toy parts by Kirchhoff, Meadham and Mazhar.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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They queued for appointments to have spectacular couture headdresses especially made for them out of hydrangeas, gypsophila, daisies, fake roses, tinsel and toy parts by Kirchhoff, Meadham and Mazhar.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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FLOWERS: The bride carried a bouquet of gypsophila with diamante from Bloomsbury,
jennarenn commented on the word gypsophila
Baby's breath, with thanks to Treeseed.
February 10, 2008