Candytuft Definition

kăndē-tŭft
noun
Any of a genus (Iberis) of garden plants of the crucifer family, with clusters of white, pink, or purplish flowers.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Candytuft

Noun

Singular:
candytuft
Plural:
candytufts

Origin of Candytuft

  • From Italian Candia (“the name used by the Venetian occupiers of the city of Iraklion”) + tuft

    From Wiktionary

  • Obsolete Candy (variant of Candia) tuft

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Candytuft Sentence Examples

  • Amongst shrubby plants suitable for edgings are the evergreen candytuft (Iberis sempervirens), Euonymus radicans variegata, ivy, and Euonymus microphyllus - a charming little evergreen with small serrated leaves.

  • The Candytuft, of which several dwarf spreading subshrubby species are amongst the best of rock plants, clothing the surface with tufts of green shoots, and flowering in masses during May and June.

  • Sow seeds of sweet alyssum, candytuft, daisies, mignonette, pansies, &c. Visit the roadsides and woods for interesting plants to put in the hardy borders.

  • Annual Candytuft (Iberis Umbellata) - This and its ally (I. coronaria) are the hardy annual Candytufts.

  • The Rocket Candytuft (I. coronaria) in good soil grows 12 to 16 inches high, with pure white flowers in long dense heads, and there is a dwarf variety of it (pumila), 4 to 6 inches high, forming spreading tufts 1 foot or more across.

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Words Starting With

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