英语词汇candytuft的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	candytuft
词源	candytuft. These colorful flowers have nothing at all to do with candy, which they do not taste like or look like. Candy here is simply a variation on Candia, a city in Crete, where can- dytuft (Iberis umbellata) was originally found over a century ago.
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