英和和英

名詞

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

参考

• sweet John

参照

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