sweet william

See also: sweet-william and Sweet William

English

Alternative forms

• sweet-william, Sweet William

Noun

sweet william (usually uncountable, plural sweet williams)

1. A flowering plant, Dianthus barbatus, in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans.

   Synonym: bunch pink

   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman At The Store:

     Of flowers there were double poppies and sweet-williams.

2. Various dogfish, especially when sold as food.

   Synonym: rock salmon

Translations

Dianthus barbatus

• Bulgarian: самакитка f (samakitka)
• Catalan: clavell del pom m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏧᏣ ᎠᏂᏥᎸᏍᎩ (anitsutsa anitsilvsgi)
• Czech: hvozdík bradatý m, hvozdík vousatý m
• Finnish: harjaneilikka
• French: œillet de poète (fr) m
• German: Bartnelke (de) f
• Hungarian: törökszegfű
• Irish: lus na gile m
• Italian: garofano del poeta m
• Korean: 수염패랭이꽃 (suyeompaeraeng'ikkot)
• Latvian: čemuru neļķe f
• Macedonian: турски трендафил m (turski trendafil)
• Norman: jalousie f, girofliée f
• Romanian: garofiță-de-grădină f
• Russian: туре́цкая гвозди́ка f (turéckaja gvozdíka)
• Swedish: borstnejlika c
• Vietnamese: cẩm chướng thơm lùn
• Walloon: bouket-tot-fwait (wa) m
• Welsh: penigan barfog m
• Yiddish: באָרד־נעגעלע n (bord-negele)

See also

• sweet John

References

• “sweet william”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• sweet william on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dianthus barbatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies