current LEO-entry:
Siehe Wörterbuch: Bartnelke
• sweet william (also: William) [bot.] = die Bartnelke
see also:
Siehe auch: Bartnelke
Siehe auch: sweet william - (Bart)nelke

NOTE: This proposal suggests CHANGES to the current LEO-entry:
• sweet william (also: William) [bot.] = die Bartnelke (auch: Bart-Nelke) wiss.: Dianthus barbatus

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http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engl...
sweet william
Definition of sweet william
noun
a fragrant European garden pink with flattened clusters of vivid red, pink, or white flowers.
• Dianthus barbatus, family Caryophyllaceae

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swe...
sweet wil•liam noun, often capitalized W
\ˌswēt-ˈwil-yəm\
Definition of SWEET WILLIAM
: a widely cultivated Old World pink (Dianthus barbatus) with small white to deep red or purple flowers often showily spotted, banded, or mottled and borne in flat-topped cymes
[…]
Origin of SWEET WILLIAM
from the name William
First Known Use: 1573

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=...
• S: (n) sweet William, Dianthus barbatus (Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers)

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/garden...
Dianthus barbatus
Common Name: sweet William

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http://www.gartendatenbank.de/wiki/dianthus-b...
Bartnelke (Dianthus barbatus)

http://www.natur-lexikon.com/Texte/MZ/003/002...
Bartnelke (Dianthus barbatus)

http://www.gartenatelier.de/pflanzenportraets...
Bartnelke Dianthus barbatus

http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~db111/flora/D...
Dianthus barbatus ssp. barbatus L.
(Bart-Nelke)
Status: Kultivierte Art (Nutz- oder Zierpflanze)

http://blumeninschwaben.de/Zweikeimblaettrige...
Bart- Nelke
(Dianthus barbatus)

http://offene-naturfuehrer.de/web/Dianthus_(D...
Bart-Nelke – Dianthus barbatus L.

Native & growing wild in Austria, southern & eastern Europe, China, & Korea. Widely cultivated; naturalized (or at least occasionally escaping cultivation) in Germany, Switzerland, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, Mexico, & elsewhere.
Distribution / Verbreitung: in Europe
in North America
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Other English names (not proposed):
bunch pink
cultivated sweet william
French pink
garden sweet william
London tuft
Our Lady’s tuft
sweet william pink
wild carnation

Andere deutsche Namen (nicht vorgeschlagen):
die Busch-Nelke

Taxonomic citation:
Dianthus barbatus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 409. 1753.

NOTE: Forms such as “sweetwilliam”, “sweet-william”, and “sweet-William” ought to be avoided even though they are encountered in literature that is botanically authoritative. Dictionaries (like OED & M-W) are the grammatical & lexical authorities – the English common name is two separate words, not hyphenated, and the second word can be capitalized or not.

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