baby's breath

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   tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers

   Synonymsbabies'-breathGypsophila paniculata

   Broaderflower

   Part ofGypsophila

Questions about baby's breath

What does baby's breath mean?

baby's breath means "tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers".

What is another word for baby's breath?

Close synonyms include babies'-breath, Gypsophila paniculata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baby's breath a common word?

baby's breath is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.