sweet william

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The bunch-pink, Dianthus barbatus, a garden flower, hardy and of vigorous growth, bearing in close clusters a profusion of brightly and variously colored flowers, generally party-colored in zones. Compare sweet-john.
• noun The Deptford pink, or sweet-william catchfly, Dianthus Armeria. See pink.
• noun See Lychnis.
• noun The goldfinch, Carduelis elegans.

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• noun 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.

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• noun Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers