Carnation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of numerous cultivated forms of a perennial plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) having showy, variously colored, usually double, often fragrant flowers with fringed petals.
  • n. A flower of this plant. Also called clove pink.
  • n. A pinkish tint once used in painting.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
  • n. The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
  • n. A rosy pink colour
  • n. The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
  • n. Sometimes, a scarlet colour.
  • adj. Of a rosy pink or red colour, like human flesh.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
  • n. Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
  • n. A species of Dianthus (Dianthus Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Flesh-color; pink.
  • n. In painting, the representation of flesh; the nude or undraped parts of a figure.
  • n. In botany: The common name of the pink Dianthus Caryophyllus, a native of southern Europe, but cultivated from very ancient times for its fragrance and beauty.
  • n. The Cæsalpinia pulcherrima, the Spanish carnation, a leguminous shrub with very showy flowers, often cultivated in tropical regions. Also formerly, by corruption, coronation.
  • n. Incarnation.
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  • adj. pink or pinkish
  • n. Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
  • n. a pink or reddish-pink color
    • Equivalent
    chromatic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pink    garden pink   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    clove pink    gillyflower   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    peony    chrysanthemum    rosebud    verbena    eglantine   
     
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