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SWEET WILLIAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet William mean?
• SWEET WILLIAM (noun)
The noun SWEET WILLIAM has 1 sense:
1. Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers
Familiarity information: SWEET WILLIAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dianthus barbatus; sweet William
Hypernyms ("sweet William" is a kind of...):
garden pink; pink (any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers)
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