candy cane

English[edit]

candy cane (plural candy canes)

(US, Canada) An edible candy in the shape of a cane or staff, generally consumed during Christmas time and usually having a peppermint flavor.
Synonyms: peppermint stick, Santa's cane, sugar cane
A type of myco-heterotroph with a red and white striped stem (Allotropa virgata)
Synonym: candystick
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 174:
  Candy canes only associate with matsutake, and their presence is as sure an indicator of a thriving matsutake fungus as a matsutake mushroom itself.

candy in the shape of a cane

Arabic: ^{(please verify)} حَلْوَى قَصَبٍ m (ḥalwā qaṣabin)
Armenian: կարամելային ձեռնափայտ (karamelayin jeṙnapʻayt)
Catalan: bastó de caramel m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拐杖糖 (guǎizhàng táng)
Dutch: zuurstok (nl) m
Estonian: pulgakomm
Finnish: karkkitanko, piparminttukaramelli, tikkunekku (fi)
French: sucre d’orge (fr) m, (Quebec) canne de bonbon (fr) f, (Quebec) canne de Noël f
German: Zuckerstange (de) f
Hebrew: מַקֵּל סַבָּא m (makél sába)
Hungarian: cukorpálca
Indonesian: permen tongkat
Irish: maide milis m, cána candaí m
Italian: bastoncino di zucchero m
Japanese: キャンディーケイン (kyandī kein), キャンディケイン (kyandi kein), キャンディ棒 (キャンディぼう, kyandibō)
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: likstok m
Lule Sami: polkanjálguk
Norwegian:
Nynorsk: sukkerstong f
Pennsylvania German: Zuckerschtengel m
Polish: cukrowa laska f
Portuguese: bastão de doces m, bengala doce f
Russian: караме́льная трость f (karamélʹnaja trostʹ), караме́льная па́лочка f (karamélʹnaja páločka)
Spanish: bastón de caramelo (es) m
Swedish: polkagris (sv) c
Tagalog: kending baston, kending tungkod
Ukrainian: караме́льна па́личка f (karamélʹna pályčka)
Welsh: ffon gandi f
West Frisian: sûrstôk