candy canes (Allotropa virgata)
candy cane (plural candy canes)
- (US, Canada) An edible candy in the shape of a cane or staff, generally consumed during Christmas time and usually having a peppermint flavor.
- Synonyms: peppermint stick, Santa's cane, sugar cane
- A type of myco-heterotroph with a red and white striped stem (Allotropa virgata)
- Synonym: candystick
2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 174:Candy canes only associate with matsutake, and their presence is as sure an indicator of a thriving matsutake fungus as a matsutake mushroom itself.
candy in the shape of a cane
- Arabic: (please verify) حَلْوَى قَصَبٍ m (ḥalwā qaṣabin)
- Armenian: կարամելային ձեռնափայտ (karamelayin jeṙnapʻayt)
- Catalan: bastó de caramel m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拐杖糖 (guǎizhàng táng)
- Dutch: zuurstok (nl) m
- Estonian: pulgakomm
- Finnish: karkkitanko, piparminttukaramelli, tikkunekku (fi)
- French: sucre d’orge (fr) m, (Quebec) canne de bonbon (fr) f, (Quebec) canne de Noël f
- German: Zuckerstange (de) f
- Hebrew: מַקֵּל סַבָּא m (makél sába)
- Hungarian: cukorpálca
- Indonesian: permen tongkat
- Irish: maide milis m, cána candaí m
- Italian: bastoncino di zucchero m
- Japanese: キャンディーケイン (kyandī kein), キャンディケイン (kyandi kein), キャンディ棒 (キャンディぼう, kyandibō)
- Korean: 캔디 케인 (kaendi kein), 홍백색 가락엿 (hongbaeksaek garagyeot)
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: likstok m
- Lule Sami: polkanjálguk
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk: sukkerstong f
- Pennsylvania German: Zuckerschtengel m
- Polish: cukrowa laska f
- Portuguese: bastão de doces m, bengala doce f
- Russian: караме́льная трость f (karamélʹnaja trostʹ), караме́льная па́лочка f (karamélʹnaja páločka)
- Spanish: bastón de caramelo (es) m
- Swedish: polkagris (sv) c
- Tagalog: kending baston, kending tungkod
- Ukrainian: караме́льна па́личка f (karamélʹna pályčka)
- Welsh: ffon gandi f
- West Frisian: sûrstôk
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