candytuft

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C0065800 (kăn′dē-tŭft′)n. 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.

[Obsolete Candy (variant of Candia¹) + tuft.]

candytuft

(ˈkændɪˌtʌft) n (Plants) either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers. See iberis[C17: from Candy, obsolete variant of Candia (Crete) + tuft]

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n. any of various small plants of the genus Iberis, of the mustard family, with tufted white, pink, or lavender flowers. [1570–80; Candy (variant of Candia) + tuft]

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candytuft - any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to Mediterranean regionflower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomsgenus Iberis, Iberis - Old World herbs and subshrubs: candytuft

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any plant of the genus Iberis of the family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae; mustardmustard,
common name for the Cruciferae, or Brassicaceae, a large family chiefly of herbs of north temperate regions. The easily distinguished flowers of the Cruciferae have four petals arranged diagonally ("cruciform") and alternating with the four sepals.
..... Click the link for more information. family), low-growing plants of the Old World. A number of half-hardy annuals and evergreen perennials are cultivated—chiefly in borders and rock gardens—for the flat-topped or elongated clusters of flowers of various colors. Candytufts are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Capparales (or Brassicales), family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae).

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either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers

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noun any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers

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