Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
battle in World War I (1917);
an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders;
Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery;
[syn: Ypres, battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
third battle of Ypres
n 1: battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which
eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the
waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard
gas which interfered with the Allied artillery [syn:
Ypres, battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres]