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INFANT'S-BREATH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does infant's-breath mean?
• INFANT'S-BREATH (noun)
The noun INFANT'S-BREATH has 1 sense:
1. Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
Familiarity information: INFANT'S-BREATH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
false baby's breath; Galium mollugo; infant's-breath; white bedstraw; white madder; wild madder
Hypernyms ("infant's-breath" is a kind of...):
bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)
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