candytuft

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian Candia (“the name used by the Venetian occupiers of the city of Iraklion”) + tuft

Noun

candytuft (plural candytufts)

1. An annual plant of the genus Iberis.

Translations

plant of the genus Iberis

• Bulgarian: иберис m (iberis)
• Finnish: saippo (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “candytuft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)