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Meaning of gypsophila



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

gypsophila
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Etymologically it means plaster-like gypsum, plaster friends. It is the name of a genus of plants that belongs to the family Caryophyllaceae.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Gypsophila : Gender of crawling and clustered plants of arid and plastery slopes such as those of the southeastern part of Madrid. Linnaeus gave them the name for his apparent prefisical plaster, in Greek gypsies. By the hill of Almodóvar, near my neighborhood, you can see the gypsophila struthium, which they also call albalda, jabuna, soap, soapy grass or soapbox of la Mancha, because before they used it for this purpose.

  










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