sweet william

See also: sweet-william and Sweet William

English

Alternative forms

• sweet-william, Sweet William

Wikispecies

Noun

sweet william (usually uncountable, plural sweet williams)

1. A flowering plant, , in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Of flowers there were double poppies and sweet-williams. - "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories" by Katherine Mansfield (first published in 1912)

   Synonym: bunch pink

Translations

Dianthus barbatus

• 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
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• Macedonian: турски трендафил m (turski trendafil)
• Norman: jalousie f, girofliée f
• Romanian: garofiță-de-grădină f
• Russian: туре́цкая гвозди́ка f (turéckaja gvozdíka)
• Walloon: bouket-tot-fwait (wa) m

See also

• Caryophyllaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• sweet John