sweet william

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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

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