Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Iberis in the mustard family, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for their showy clusters of white, pink, crimson, or purple flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of plants of the genus Iberis, especially I. umbellata, having tufted flowers, brought from the island of Candia. See
Iberis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the
Iberis umbellata , first, discovered in the island of Candia (The Italian name for Crete). It is grown as an ornamental plant, having tufted red,violet, purple, or pink flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
annual plant of thegenus Iberis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to Mediterranean region
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I especially like the orange tulips with the white candytuft nearby.
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Love the tulips, candytuft, ajuga, dianthus, lilacs. . . love it all!
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I particularly like the bed with the Tulipa vvedenskyi ‘Tangerine Beauty’, candytuft and white daffodils.
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I also love the candytuft/species tulips combo, and those lovely huge groupings of pansies which I love! make a great impact.
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I would agree that oriental poppies might be too aggressive for these delicate beauties, but candytuft is pretty aggressive too.
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The patches of candytuft, iberis, in front and back seem to have a more dense flowering than is usual also.
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The pink tulips have opened along with the white candytuft and the blue grape hyacinths are still hanging on.
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I swear they went much faster this spring. the lilac in the backyard is coming into bloom — basically, we saved that plant; 2 years ago, it was completely smothered in blackberry and morning glory — and the candytuft & veronica ? continue to bloom, but everything else is still just getting ready to do something.
the tulips are nearly gone - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2004
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Mela could not resist plucking a silvery platina lace shawl from a nearby Spanish shawl bush, and Okra nibbled bits and pieces from the pink peppermint candytuft tree.
The Color of Her Panties Anthony, Piers 1992
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Mela could not resist plucking a silvery platina lace shawl from a nearby Spanish shawl bush, and Okra nibbled bits and pieces from the pink peppermint candytuft tree.
The Color of Her Panties Anthony, Piers 1992
mollusque commented on the word candytuft
He told me about the chamomiles, the hellebores, the petunias, the sweet williams, the wild pinks, the anemones, the sedums, the candytufts, the peonies, the Syrian opals, the daturas, the flowers that live for only a season, the ones that come back year after year, and the ones that beam from dawn to dusk, displaying their delicate corollas of rosy or mauve convolvulus, only to close abruptly at nightfall, as if a wrathful hand had squeezed their velvet petals and choked them.
--Philippe Claudel, 2007, By a Slow River, p. 111
August 6, 2010