baby's breath

English

Noun

baby's breath (countable and uncountable, 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, 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 […]

Related terms

• baby's tears

Translations

Gypsophila

• Arabic: جِيبْسُوفِيلَا f (jībsūfīlā), كُنْدُس m (kundus) (obsolete)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石頭花 / 石头花 (shítouhuā)

• Finnish: raunikki (fi)
• French: gypsophile paniculée f
• German: Gipskraut n
• Japanese: 霞草 (ja) (かすみそう, kasumisou)
• Korean: 안개꽃 (ko) (an'gaekkot)
• Romanian: iperige (ro) f, floarea miresei f
• Russian: качи́м мете́льчатый m (kačím metélʹčatyj)
• Spanish: nube (es) f, velo de novia m
• Swedish: brudslöja (sv) c