"gypsophila" meaning in English

See gypsophila in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: gypsophilas [plural]
Etymology: From the genus name. Head templates: {{en-noun}} gypsophila (plural gypsophilas)
  1. Any of the many flowering plants of the genus Gypsophila, which have a profusion of small pink or white flowers. Wikipedia link: gypsophila Categories (lifeform): Carnation family plants Synonyms: baby's breath, gyp
    Sense id: en-gypsophila-en-noun-rpkJkuAV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gypsophilas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gypsophila (plural gypsophilas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Carnation family plants",
          "orig": "en:Carnation family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Caryophyllales order plants",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Hanneke Van Dijk, Encyclopedia of Border Plants, page 151:",
          "text": "There are annual and perennial gypsophilas.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David Michener, Nan Sinton, editors, Taylor's Guide to Ground Covers, page 243:",
          "text": "Gypsophilas are closely related to pinks and carnations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, A Garden for Life, page 75:",
          "text": "Gypsophilas are easily grown from seeds.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the many flowering plants of the genus Gypsophila, which have a profusion of small pink or white flowers."
      ],
      "id": "en-gypsophila-en-noun-rpkJkuAV",
      "links": [
        [
          "flowering plant",
          "flowering plant"
        ],
        [
          "Gypsophila",
          "Gypsophila#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "flower",
          "flower"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "baby's breath"
        },
        {
          "word": "gyp"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "gypsophila"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gypsophila"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gypsophilas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gypsophila (plural gypsophilas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Carnation family plants"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Hanneke Van Dijk, Encyclopedia of Border Plants, page 151:",
          "text": "There are annual and perennial gypsophilas.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David Michener, Nan Sinton, editors, Taylor's Guide to Ground Covers, page 243:",
          "text": "Gypsophilas are closely related to pinks and carnations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, A Garden for Life, page 75:",
          "text": "Gypsophilas are easily grown from seeds.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the many flowering plants of the genus Gypsophila, which have a profusion of small pink or white flowers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flowering plant",
          "flowering plant"
        ],
        [
          "Gypsophila",
          "Gypsophila#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "flower",
          "flower"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "gypsophila"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "baby's breath"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gypsophila"
}

Download raw JSONL data for gypsophila meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (f2d86ce and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.